Taft partner Ambassador Tom McDonald was a featured speaker at the George Washington Law School Advisory Board meeting on Oct. 28. He spoke on the importance of a dean’s role in the modern law school and introduced Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew.

A former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, McDonald is a trial lawyer and litigator at Taft. He provides strategic business and government relations counsel to clients, effectively mixing his extensive legal and lobbying experience. He regularly advises corporate CEOs and chief legal officers on a variety of government relations issues in Washington, internationally, and in major U.S. state capitals. McDonald is also a registered federal and state lobbyist before the U.S. Senate and House and has an active federal agency and Capitol Hill practice.