Former Investigative Counsel for U.S. Congress Sandeep Prasanna Joins D.C.-based Law Firm Miller & Chevalier Chartered
- A law professor at Georgetown, the Indian American worked for the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Sandeep Prasanna, a law professor at Georgetown, and investigative counsel for the House Jan. 6 committee, has joined Miller & Chevalier Chartered, a law firm in Washington, D.C., as a senior associate in the litigation department, Politico has reported.
Before joining the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Indian American was appointed by President Biden to serve in the Department of Justice. In the role, he “provided strategic advice to Departmental leadership and nominees, responded to Congressional oversight, and advanced the Department’s legislative priorities,” according to Prasanna’s Georgetown profile.
He was previously the majority staff director for the Subcommittee on Intelligence & Counterterrorism under the Committee on Homeland Security. In that capacity, “he advanced legislation and oversight related to domestic terrorism, other counterterrorism issues, national security, civil rights and civil liberties, and the Department of Homeland Security,” the profile said.
Before that, he served as General Counsel to Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), where “he led the Senator’s work on gun violence prevention, civil rights, immigration, judicial nominations, and other legal issues, according to the profile. He started on Capitol Hill as a Judiciary Committee staffer for Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), “where he drafted major hate crimes legislation that became law in 2021.”
Prasanna began his legal career as a fellow at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. He is a published author on the laws of war and wrote a weekly column for The Economist on linguistics and language politics. He holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs; an M.P.P. from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; and an A.B. with distinction from Duke University.