{"id":123123,"date":"2025-06-16T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/16\/mike-pompeo-joins-conservative-powerhouse-firm-founded-by-bill-barr\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T21:02:48","slug":"mike-pompeo-joins-conservative-powerhouse-firm-founded-by-bill-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/16\/mike-pompeo-joins-conservative-powerhouse-firm-founded-by-bill-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo Joins Conservative Powerhouse Firm Founded By Bill Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is slowly but surely turning his boutique firm into a conservative powerhouse. After leaving Biglaw because it he thought it had become \u201ctoo big, too woke,\u201d<\/a> Barr founded Torridon Law Group<\/a> in late 2022, where he\u2019s been catching big-name Republican litigators like Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n

The latest lawyer he\u2019s added to his roster is none other than Mike Pompeo<\/a>, former CIA director and later secretary of state during Trump\u2019s first term in the White House. Pompeo will serve as of counsel in his new role. Bloomberg Law<\/a> has additional details on the rest of the ex-Trumpers employed at the firm:<\/p>\n

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The firm includes Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel under Trump, Fried Fielding, White House counsel under Presidents Ronald Reagan George W. Bush, and Patrick Philbin, a deputy counsel under Trump. The firm also recently brought on Mike Fragoso, chief counsel to former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell as a partner and Dan Brouillette, Trump\u2019s former energy secretary, to its strategic advisory arm. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s a great time to have ties to the MAGA agenda<\/a>, so we\u2019re sure Bill Barr will have no problem when it comes to hiring even more right-wingers to serve the cause.<\/p>\n

Mike Pompeo Joins Bill Barr-Founded Law Firm in Washington DC<\/a> [Bloomberg Law]<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Mike Pompeo Joins Conservative Powerhouse Firm Founded By Bill Barr<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is slowly but surely turning his boutique firm into a conservative powerhouse. After leaving Biglaw because it he thought it had become \u201ctoo big, too woke,\u201d<\/a> Barr founded Torridon Law Group<\/a> in late 2022, where he\u2019s been catching big-name Republican litigators like Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n

The latest lawyer he\u2019s added to his roster is none other than Mike Pompeo<\/a>, former CIA director and later secretary of state during Trump\u2019s first term in the White House. Pompeo will serve as of counsel in his new role. Bloomberg Law<\/a> has additional details on the rest of the ex-Trumpers employed at the firm:<\/p>\n

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The firm includes Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel under Trump, Fried Fielding, White House counsel under Presidents Ronald Reagan George W. Bush, and Patrick Philbin, a deputy counsel under Trump. The firm also recently brought on Mike Fragoso, chief counsel to former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell as a partner and Dan Brouillette, Trump\u2019s former energy secretary, to its strategic advisory arm. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s a great time to have ties to the MAGA agenda<\/a>, so we\u2019re sure Bill Barr will have no problem when it comes to hiring even more right-wingers to serve the cause.<\/p>\n

Mike Pompeo Joins Bill Barr-Founded Law Firm in Washington DC<\/a> [Bloomberg Law]<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is slowly but surely turning his boutique firm into a conservative powerhouse. After leaving Biglaw because it he thought it had become \u201ctoo big, too woke,\u201d Barr founded Torridon Law Group in late 2022, where he\u2019s been catching big-name Republican litigators like Pok\u00e9mon. The latest lawyer he\u2019s added to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Staci-Zaretsky-SJsiNz.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}