Guantanamo Bay Attorneys - Guantanamo Detainees' Defense Attorneys

• attorney with Holland & Hart

• Reported all references in his notes to Khadr's claims of abuse at Guantanamo were redacted.

• part of the team from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with O'Riordan Bethel LLP

• attorney with Avocat à la Cour, Paris, France

• part of the team from Covington & Burling

• attorney with Howrey LLP

• attorney with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan

• attorney with Pepper Hamilton LLP

• attorney with Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe LLP

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• Seton Hall University School of Law

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Oregon

• Center for Justice and International Law

• co-lead counsel in habeas corpus petitions on behalf of five detainees.
• partner at Holland & Hart.
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Blank Rome LLP

• attorney with Blank Rome LLP

• formerly with Holland & Hart
• currently president of Bethel College in Kansas.

• attorney with Clifford Chance

• attorney with Keller and Heckman LLP

• attorney with Holland & Hart

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione

• attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges

• attorney with Winston & Strawn LLP

• attorney with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore

• staff member with Schiff Hardin LLP

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron

• attorney with Ruprecht, Hart & Weeks Esqs.

• partner at Cozen O'Connor

• partner at Jenner & Block

• military lawyer

• attorney with Brennan, Trainor, Billman & Bennett, LLP

• attorney with Blank Rome LLP

• attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer

• partner at Jenner & Block

• former partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP; moved to Cozen O'Connor in 2006.

• attorney with Hunton & Williams

• partner at Venable LLP

• part of the team from WilmerHale

• attorney with Burke, McPheeters, Bordner, & Estes

• attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP

• attorney with Winston & Strawn LLP

• partner at Perkins Coie

• attorney with Perkins Coie

Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Rami Bin Said Al Taibi, and Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari

• former partner at Pepper Hamilton LLP
• sole practitioner in Missoula, Montana since 2009
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Northwestern University School of Law

• partner at Holland & Hart
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• Mohammad Lameen Sidi Mohammad
• Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz
• Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani
• Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani

• Anna Cayton-Holland and her father John Robert Holland represent four Guantanamo captives.

• formerly a partner at WilmerHale
• later became deputy, and then assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel under the Obama administration

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
• partner at King & Spalding

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law

• partner at Allen & Overy

• attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

• attorney with Christian Khan

• attorney at Baker & McKenzie

• former partner at Fulbright & Jaworski (now with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP)

• attorney with Fordham University School of Law

• partner with Burns & Levinson LLP (formerly partner with Perkins Smith & Cohen)

• Al Dossary made a suicide attempt during on of his visits, when Colangelo-Bryan stepped out of the room to let him take a washroom break.
• attorney with Dorsey & Whitney
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• partner at Jenner & Block

• later became senior counsel for the deputy attorney general under the Obama administration

• acting chief defense counsel at the Office of Military Commissions

• Pentagon-appointed lawyer

• attorney with Murphy & Shaffer

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney with Foliart, Huff, Ottaway & Bottom

• attorney with Pepper Hamilton LLP

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Allen & Overy

• University of Oklahoma College of Law

• attorney with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

• attorney with Nixon Peabody

• attorney with WilmerHale

• partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

• partner at Davis Wright Tremaine

• attorney with Seton Hall University School of Law

• Al Utaybi was one of the three captives the camp authorities reported committed suicide on June 10, 2006.
  • The DoD initially asserted that none of the three dead men had habeas corpus lawyers.
  • Davis replied that the DoD had been refusing to forward mail to Al Utaybi, claiming they didn't have any captives by that name.
  • The camp authorities had assigned Al Utaybi a series of new names,
• attorney with Moore & Van Allen

• attorney with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

• attorney with Denbeaux & Denbeaux

• attorney with Denbeaux & Denbeaux
• law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law

• partner at Jenner & Block

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• German attorney with Dr. Heinrich Hannover und Partner

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Northern GA

• attorney with Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron
• participant in 'Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with HeplerBroom LLC LLP

• attorney with Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg & Ives PA

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• partner at Law Offices Of Durkin & Roberts
• also represented associates of Hamas in the U.S.
• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe LLP

• Canadian attorney with Edney Hattersley & Dolphin

• attorney with Seton Hall University School of Law

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Oregon

• attorney with Weinberg & Garber PC

• formerly with Schiff Hardin LLP

• attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Northern GA

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• law professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
• initially with Covington & Burling
• compiled a book of the detainees' poetry.

• attorney with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

• attorney with Clifford Chance

• Ahmed Ghailani
• Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
• Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali

• Fenstermaker and David Remes are in a rare dispute as to who should serve on behalf of their clients.

• Appointed to represent al Bahlul before a Guantanamo military commission.
• Al Bahlul's second military lawyer.
• Called the commissions a "wholly illegitime process".

• partner at WilmerHale.

• attorney with McDade Fogler LLP

• attorney with Perkins Coie

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron

• Fadi al Maqelah
• Ruzatullah

• attorney with Center for Constitutional Rights
• Executive Director of the International Justice Network.
• Has also worked on behalf of captives of the USA in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.

• Major in the United States Air Force Reserves.
• Appointed to defend Jawad before a Guantanamo Military Commission.
• A law professor in civilian life.

• attorney with Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe LLP

• professor with Hofstra University School of Law

• professor with Hofstra University School of Law

• partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll

• attorney with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

• attorney with Gensburg, Atwell and Broderick
• Reports that working for a Guantanamo client has led to his firm's phone, mail and email being intercepted.

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney with Allen & Overy

• attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

• attorney with WilmerHale

• partner at Jenner & Block

• attorney with Roger Williams University

• attorney with Dechert

• Reported that Al Ghazzawi had two Combatant Status Review Tribunals.
  • The first cleared him of being an "enemy combatant".
  • The second, she was told reversed the first Tribunal, based on additional classified material.
  • When Gorman won the right to view the classified material she reports that the second Tribunal was held, in Washington, without her client, or his "Personal Representative", and did not contain any additional material at all.

• attorney with Seton Hall University School of Law

• attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer

• attorney with Seton Hall University School of Law

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Spivey & Grigg LLP
• participant in 'Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

• attorney with Gurewitz & Raben PLC

• Majid Khan
• Mohamed al-Kahtani
• Moazzam Begg
• Feroz Ali Abbasi

• participant in 'Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Fulbright & Jaworski

• attorney with Bingham McCutchen

• Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
• attorney with Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione

• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell

• attorney with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

• attorney with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

• Seton Hall University School of Law

• attorney with Allen & Overy
• knowledge of Arabic gained from working in Cairo

• attorney with Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe LLP

• attorney with WilmerHale.

• attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges

• attorney with Law Offices Of Durkin & Roberts

• attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges

• attorney with McCarter & English
• fluent in Arabic

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young

• part of the team from WilmerHale
• Hoffer wrote an account of the capture and detention of six Bosnians captives of Algerian descent.

• Mohammad Lameen Sidi Mohammad
• Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz
• Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani
• Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani

• He and his daughter Anna Cayton-Holland represent four Gauntanamo captives.

• attorney with Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg & Ives PA
• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of New Jersey

• attorney with WilmerHale

• Australian lawyer

• attorney with Clifford Chance

• attorney with Dechert

• attorney with Pepper Hamilton LLP

• attorney with Bingham McCutchen

• attorney with Shearman & Sterling
• made thirteen trips to Guantanamo
• helped prepare for Rasul v. Bush hearing before the United States Supreme Court

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Oregon

• attorney with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• United States Army Reserve

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Columbia

• attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP

• partner at Jenner & Block

• attorney with Bingham McCutchen

• attorney with Perkins Coie
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Killmer Lane & Newman LLP

• attorney with McCarter & English

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• Moazzam Begg
• Murat Kurnaz

• attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights

• partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• attorney with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

• attorney with Dorsey & Whitney

• attorney with Pepper Hamilton LLP

• attorney with Hunton & Williams

• Fordham University School of Law

• Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law School

• Senior Counsel at Reprieve

• attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer

• associate with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• attorney with Birnberg Pierce & Partners

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• initially said Hicks was well treated at Guantanamo

• attorney with Holland & Hart
• counsel of record for five detainees
• joined the Council on American Islamic Relations in 2003

• attorney and translator

• attorney with Killmer Lane & Newman LLP

• Utah public defender

• attorney with Kindlon & Shanks, P.C.

• partner at WilmerHale.

• attorney with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

• attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP

• part of the team from Covington & Burling

• attorney formerly with Covington & Burling
• assistant professor with New York University School of Law

• Attorney with Shearman & Sterling
• Spoke out against attempts to limit attorneys access to their Guantanamo clients.

• former Center for Constitutional Rights intern
• graduate of Lewis & Clark College Law School
• Portland, Oregon attorney with the Portland Law Collective

• appointed for the defense by the U.S. Navy

• attorney with Howrey LLP

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe LLP

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with Allen & Overy

• attorney with Blank Rome LLP

• attorney with Lesnevich & Marzano-Lesnevich

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Oregon

• attorney with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

• attorney with Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC.

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Northern GA

• Assisted in Covington & Burling's representation of the Yemenis

• attorney with Holland & Hart
• signed a petition for Ehren Watada

• attorney with Shearman & Sterling LLP

• attorney with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron

• attorney with Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione

• attorney with Dechert

• partner at Holland & Hart

• attorney with Center for Constitutional Rights
• coordinates representation for detainees

• attorney with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with Dechert

• attorney with Manchel, Wiggins & Kaye

• attorney with Seton Hall University School of Law

• partner at Bingham McCutchen

• attorney with Northwestern University
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Foley Hoag LLP

• Chief Defense Counsel for the Office of Military Commissions in 2008 and 2009.

• partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• controversially used "legal mail" to pass Amnesty International pamphlet to detainees

• attorney with Allen & Overy

• attorney with Lavin, O'Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• University of Michigan Clinical Law Program

• attorney with Bingham McCutchen

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• replacement for Stephen Kenny

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with Perkins Coie

• attorney with Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Northern GA

• Khadr is the first client he had ever been called upon to defend.

• attorney with Keller and Heckman LLP
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with Cramer & Minock, PLC

• attorney with Venable LLP

• partner at Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Allen & Overy

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron

• attorney with Esdaile Barrett & Esdaile

• attorney with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

• attorney with Law Offices Of Durkin & Roberts

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney with Murphy & Shaffer

• counsel with WilmerHale

• attorney with Kessler, Mullkoff and Hooberman

• attorney with Holland & Hart

• partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan

• attorney with Murphy & Shaffer

• partner at McCarter & English

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with Lesser, Newman, Souweine, & Nasser

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• attorney with Nixon Peabody

• attorney with O'Donnell Shaeffer Mortimer

• attorney with Shaeffer Mortimer

• part of the team from WilmerHale

• attorney with Center for Constitutional Rights

• attorney with Lavin, O'Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio

• attorney with Carlton Fields

• attorney with Foliart, Huff, Ottaway & Bottom

• attorney with Haggard, Parks, Haggard and Lewis P.A.

• attorney with Birnberg Pierce & Partners

• attorney with Margol Pennington

• attorney with Bingham McCutchen

• attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Columbia

• attorney with Bingham McCutchen

• attorney with Covington & Burling

• attorney with Covington & Burling

• attorney with Law Office of H. Candace Gorman

• attorney with Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe LLP

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP

• attorney with Law Office of Judith Brown Chomsky

• attorney with Hunton & Williams

• attorney with Allen & Overy

• A Captain in the United States Navy Reserve recalled to active duty to represent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

• attorney with Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Columbia

• Al Sharbi faces charges before a Guantanamo military commission
• attorney with Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

• attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

• attorney with Rapkin, Gitlin & Beaumont

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Southern FL

• attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges

• Saleh al-Khatemi
• Fahd al Fawzan
• Ali Mohammed Nasser Mohammed
• Sanad Al-Kazimi
• Mohammed Al-Shimrani

• Fordham University School of Law

• attorney with Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky

• attorney with Foley Hoag LLP

• part of the team from Covington & Burling

• attorney with Perkins Coie

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• attorney with Ruprecht, Hart & Weeks Esqs.

• Attorney for Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe.

• attorney with Dechert

• attorney with Whiteford, Taylor & Preston

• partner at Reed Smith

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Oregon

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
• Represents seven Uyghur captives in Guantanamo.

• Seton Hall University School of Law

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron

• attorney with Mayer Brown

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office, District of Oregon

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron

• partner at Perkins Coie.
• received the Thomas C. Wales Award for Passionate Citizenship for this work.

• former partner with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• partner at Venable LLP

• attorney with Shearman & Sterling LLP

• Assigned to defend one of the Guantanamo captives before a Guantanamo military commission.

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney with Perkins Coie

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron

• former summer-associate with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• attorney with University of Michigan Clinical Law Program

• attorney with O'Donnell Shaeffer Mortimer

• attorney with Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

• attorney with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

• attorney with Holland & Hart

• Seton Hall University School of Law

• attorney with World Organization for Human Rights USA

• attorney with Sleigh & Williams

• Brooklyn Law School

• attorney with Dechert

• attorney with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

• attorney with Hunton & Williams

• As part of her efforts on Khadr's behalf Snyder appeared before the Human Rights subcommittee of the Parliament of Canada.

• attorney with Soble Rowe Krichbaum LLP

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• Miami lawyer and American Bar Association observer at Guantanamo

• attorney with Seton Hall University School of Law

• part of the team from WilmerHale.

• director at Reprieve

• attorney with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan

• attorney with the John Adams Project

• attorney with Covington & Burling

• attorney with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

• Chief Defense Counsel.

• attorney with Dorsey & Whitney

• attorney with Allen & Overy

• partner at Jenner & Block

• Appointed to represent al Bahlul before a Guantanamo military commission.
• Said: "There's virtually no chance he can get a fair trial."

• attorney with Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione

• Steered Hamdan v. Rumsfeld all the way to the Supreme Court.
• Subsequently passed over for promotion, which, with the Navy's "up or out" promotion policy, meant his military career was over.

• attorney with Clifford Chance

• attorney with Blank Rome LLP

• partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan

• attorney with Fredrikson & Byron
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

Helped ten Saudis.

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Oregon
• Says his investigation, in Afghanistan, cleared his client.

• Tufts University

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

• attorney with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

• attorney with Hunton & Williams

• attorney with Brennan, Trainor, Billman & Bennett, LLP

• American University College of Law

• attorney with WilmerHale

• attorney for Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe
• was removed from Guantanamo following the June 10, 2006 suicide reports.

• former attorney with Pepper Hamilton LLP
• participant in Wilner v. NSA

• attorney with Dechert

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with Holland & Hart

• attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton

• attorney with Carlton Fields

• partner at Davis Wright Tremaine

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Oregon
• works with six other Oregon public defenders

• former attorney with Debeoise & Plimpton

• partner at WilmerHale

• attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer

• paralegal with Dechert

• attorney with Venable LLP

• attorney with McCarter & English

• attorney with Dechert

• attorney with Perkins Coie

• attorney with Parlee Mclaws LLP

• partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan

• attorney with Bingham McCutchen

• attorney with Shearman & Sterling LLP
• main participant in Wilner v. NSA

• American University College of Law

• attorney with the Federal Defender Office District of Eastern PA

• attorney with WilmerHale

• public defender in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh

• attorney with Jenner & Block

• part of the team from Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP

• attorney with Blank Rome LLP

• attorney with Covington & Burling

• Seton Hall University School of Law

• wrote the play "Guantanamo Act IV"