George T. Frampton, Jr.

Partner
New York City

t: 212 909 7615
f: 212 446 2350

gframpton@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Litigation

Constitutional Law and First Amendment / Mass Media

Investigations / Corporate Governance

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1969; Treasurer (Managing Editor), Harvard Law Review

The London School of Economics and Political Science, M.Sc., with distinction, Economics, 1966

Yale University, B.A., Physics and Philosophy, 1965

Clerkships

Associate Justice Harry T. Blackmun, United States Supreme Court, 1971-1972

George T. Frampton, Jr. joined the firm in April 2001. His areas of practice include complex litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and environmental and energy corporate strategy.

From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Frampton was Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. As such, he was the President's principal advisor on environmental policy matters, and directed the White House environmental policy group of approximately two dozen professionals.

In 1997 to 1998, he served as Corporate Advisor to Earth Satellite Corporation, in Bethesda, Maryland; represented Vice President Al Gore as his personal attorney in connection with the Justice Department's preliminary investigation into possible fundraising violations; and served as "Of Counsel" to this firm.

From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Frampton was Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. In this position, he was responsible for supervising the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; chaired a number of government-wide major regional initiatives within the Clinton Administration including restoration of the Florida Everglades Ecosystem and distribution of funds from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Fund; and led efforts to negotiate land-management agreements with state and local governments and large private landowners to protect sensitive habitats.

From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Frampton was President of The Wilderness Society, a non-profit advocacy and research group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1935, with a membership that grew to 400,000 members during Mr. Frampton's tenure, The Society focuses on issues relating to the management and use of federal lands and natural resources.

From 1976 to 1985, Mr. Frampton was affiliated with the Washington, D.C. litigation firm of Rogovin, Huge & Lenzner, where he specialized in major litigation and various special projects and investigations undertaken while he was a partner in the firm.

These included:

special litigation counsel for the State of Alaska in a $3.0 billion Supreme Court case involving the constitutionality of the State's separate accounting corporate income tax on oil producing companies;
special adviser to the State of Ohio in the investigation into collapse of the state bank insurance system;
special prosecutor for the State of Alaska in a grand jury investigation into corruption allegations against the Governor of Alaska;
Deputy Independent Counsel in the special federal investigation into allegations concerning Edwin Meese, III;
litigation counsel to Rep. John B. Anderson in his independent candidacy for President; succeeded in invalidating ballot access laws of seven states on constitutional grounds, allowing Anderson to appear on all fifty state ballots in 1980 general election;
Deputy Director and Chief of Staff, Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Special Inquiry Group into the Three Mile Island Accident;

Mr. Frampton was an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973 to 1975, where he was one of a team of six attorneys under two special prosecutors that conducted the grand jury investigation and trial of the Watergate Cover-up Case.

From 1971 to 1972, Mr. Frampton served as Law Clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He is a graduate of Yale College, the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Econ.) and Harvard Law School, where he served as the Treasurer (Managing Editor) of the Harvard Law Review.

He has been a Visiting Lecturer in Constitutional Law at Duke Law School, and has taught International Environmental Law at the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies/School of Law. He is an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in New York.