By American Bar Association
Four former assistant attorneys general will discuss defending the U.S. from espionage, cyber threats, terrorism and more at a luncheon hosted by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security to recognize the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Justice National Security Division (NSD). The luncheon will be held Thursday, June 4, at The University Club in Washington, D.C.
NSD was created in 2006 by the USA PATRIOT Reauthorization and Improvement Act. Its mission is to “protect the United States from threats to our national security by pursuing justice through the law.”
Former assistant attorneys general, Matthew G. Olsen, partner at WilmerHale; John Demers, corporate secretary, vice president and assistant general counsel at The Boeing Company; John P. Carlin, partner at Paul Weiss; and Kenneth Wainstein, partner at Mayer Brown, will explore the federal government’s past developments and future challenges in national security. Kelli Andrews, senior director for cybersecurity and lawful access policy at Microsoft, and former NSD chief of staff and senior counsel, is the moderator.
For additional information on the luncheon, visit www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/?login.
(https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2026/05/aba-luncheon-national-security-division/)
Four former assistant attorneys general will discuss defending the U.S. from espionage, cyber threats, terrorism and more at a luncheon hosted by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security to recognize the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Justice National Security Division (NSD). The luncheon will be held Thursday, June 4, at The University Club in Washington, D.C.
NSD was created in 2006 by the USA PATRIOT Reauthorization and Improvement Act. Its mission is to “protect the United States from threats to our national security by pursuing justice through the law.”
Former assistant attorneys general, Matthew G. Olsen, partner at WilmerHale; John Demers, corporate secretary, vice president and assistant general counsel at The Boeing Company; John P. Carlin, partner at Paul Weiss; and Kenneth Wainstein, partner at Mayer Brown, will explore the federal government’s past developments and future challenges in national security. Kelli Andrews, senior director for cybersecurity and lawful access policy at Microsoft, and former NSD chief of staff and senior counsel, is the moderator.
For additional information on the luncheon, visit www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/?login.
(https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2026/05/aba-luncheon-national-security-division/)
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