Ron Klain

Ron Klain is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Revolution LLC.  Prior to joining Revolution, Ron was a partner with the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, where his practice focused on litigation, strategic counseling, constitutional law and corporate counseling.  Ron served as Chair of the firm's National Strategic Counseling Practice Group.

Earlier, during a leave of absence from O'Melveny, Ron was General Counsel for the Gore-Lieberman Recount Committee.  In recognition of this work, The National Law Journal named him one of its "Lawyers of the Year" for 2000.  During another leave of absence from private practice, he served as Debate Preparation Coordinator for the Kerry-Edwards Presidential Campaign.

From 1995 to 1999, Ron served as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Vice President.  In this latter role, he directed Vice President Al Gore's staff, overseeing policy development, management, communications strategy and legal matters.  Ron's other positions in the Clinton-Gore administration included his service as Chief of Staff and Counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno, and Associate Counsel to the President, where he directed judicial selection efforts and led the team that won confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Ron also has extensive experience on Capitol Hill.  In 1995, he was selected by Senator Tom Daschle to be Staff Director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committees.  Earlier, from 1989 to 1992, he served as Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, overseeing the legal staff's work on matters of constitutional law, criminal law, antitrust law and Supreme Court nominations.  Ron also previously served as Legislative Director/Legislative Assistant for Rep. Ed Markey.

In 1994, Time magazine named Ron one of the "50 most promising leaders in America" under the age of 40.  In 1999, he was identified by Washingtonian magazine as the top lawyer in Washington under the age of 40, and by the ABA's Barrister magazine as one of the top 20 young lawyers nationwide.

Ron began his legal career as a Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White for the Court's 1987 and 1988 terms.  He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he won the Sears Prize (for highest grade average) in 1985 and was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he finished summa cum laude in 1983.