Hull McGuire PC

Hull McGuire PC We defend for companies all over the U.S. in courts & ADR abroad. Contracts, criminal law, fraud, IP. A native of Washington, D.C.

I am an American lawyer licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and California. In private practice for 30 years, I act for large and publicly-traded corporations in U.S. federal courts and in arbitrations in the Americas and Europe. I grew up in Detroit, Chicago and Cincinnati, Ohio. I’m an honors graduate of both Duke University (B.A. History), where I was an

editor of Duke’s student daily, and the University of Cincinnati’s College of Law (J.D.), where I was an editor of Law Review. After serving as an aide to a United States Senator, and a Congressman, I left Capitol Hill and became an associate and later a partner in the D.C. office of a large American law firm. In 1998 I founded Hull McGuire PC, with three offices in the U.S. I’ve the highest possible Martindale-Hubbell ranking. I write a fairly well-known legal blog called What About Clients/Paris? I love to write--but clients come first. My firm, Hull McGuire, serves as counselors, advocates and litigators to a variety of Fortune 500, large privately-held and start-up companies generally headquartered in the United States, Germany or the United Kingdom. The practice ranges from planning, strategy and prevention to litigation and appellate work before regulatory agencies and U.S. federal courts, and complex arbitrations domestically and abroad in the areas of transactions and contracts, securities, IP, environmental, energy and legislative. In recent years, the firm expanded its practice areas to represent select business start-ups, established writers and artists and public figures in politics or entertainment. We are licensed or have been qualified to practice law in all key American states, and a in variety of jurisdictions internationally. The firm is an active member of the International Bar Association and of a respected longstanding network of corporate lawyers worldwide the firm helped established based in London.

"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched," my Ozarks Dad and Grandpop would say, whenever after a win or two I ...
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"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched," my Ozarks Dad and Grandpop would say, whenever after a win or two I waxed overly-exuberant with mindless gloating and glee. In POTUS elections, anything could happen, and it's not over until it's over. Not the time for hubris or exaggerated self-confidence. Don't jinx this, y'all.

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When I want to read a good book, I write one.

~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Redux: "It's nice to be Dr. Ruth..."  Karola Ruth Siegel (1928-2024) was a major piece of work. Long story, but yesterda...
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Redux: "It's nice to be Dr. Ruth..."

Karola Ruth Siegel (1928-2024) was a major piece of work.

Long story, but yesterday morning I had breakfast here in New York with Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth) who at 86 is just one month older than my own Mom and just as sharp and vibrant. I met her about 10 years ago and see her every 2 years or so--but I never really talked her longer than a couple of minutes before yesterday.

She is funny and classy and b***y all at once.

And, as I told her in the middle of breakfast, she's got big ones.

Google Dr. Ruth some time.

She was born in Bavaria, June 4, 1928. Just a few months older than Anne Frank, she lost both parents in the Holocaust after they were taken from her in 1941, but did not really learn of their deaths until 1945. She escaped the N***s and spent her early teen years in a Swiss orphanage. She was trained and served as a scout and sniper in the late 1940s after moving to Palestine. That career was cut short when she was seriously injured by a shell in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. She spent months in the hospital. She speaks four languages (including Hebrew) but spoke no English when she arrived in NYC in the mid-1950s. She has lived in the same Washington Heights apartment for 50 years. She has been married 2 times and has been widowed since 1997. She has kids and grandkids. She is a single mother, survivor, winner, dreamer and doer. A problem solver.

And a joy to be around. I gather that she is totally incapable of feeling sorry for herself, even for a minute.

She is 4' 7" in height. That's right. 4 feet 7 inches.

An off-Broadway play about her is still running.

And she is precocious and funny. Yesterday a waiter recognized her and eagerly offered to go to the buffet for her almost as soon as we entered the dining room and before we even sat down. She quickly but graciously allowed him to do so--and then gave the star-struck waiter and fan her food preferences. Off to the buffet he went. She smiled mischievously and said: "It's nice to be Dr. Ruth."

October 21, 2014

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"Washington lawyer Dan Hull has seen it all and done it all, mostly as a Democrat. January 6th changed everything."
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"Washington lawyer Dan Hull has seen it all and done it all, mostly as a Democrat. January 6th changed everything."

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Happy 460th birthday to William Shakespeare. He changed the English language, writing, humor, free expression--and human consciousness itself. Say thank you.

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