Mr. Frampton is a partner at the New York law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. His areas of practice include complex litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and environmental and energy corporate strategy. From 1998-2001, Mr. Frampton served as Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality where he was the President's principal advisor on environmental policy matters, and where he directed the White House environmental policy group of approximately two-dozen professionals.
From 1997-98, he served as Corporate Advisor to the Earth Satellite Corporation in Bethesda, MD, and represented Vice President Al Gore as his personal attorney in connection with the Justice Department's preliminary investigation into possible fundraising violations. From 1993-97, 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 1986-1993, Mr. Frampton was President of The Wilderness Society, a non-profit advocacy and research group based in Washington, DC. Founded in 1935, with a membership that grew to more than 400,000 during his tenure, The Society focuses on issues relating to the management and use of federal lands and natural resources.
From 1976-1985, Mr. Frampton was affiliated with the Washington, DC litigation firm of Rogovin, Huge & Lenzner where he specialized in major litigation and various special projects and investigations. 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 of corporate income tax on oil producing companies; special advisor to the State of Ohio in the investigation into the 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; Deputy Director and Chief of Staff, Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Special Inquiry Group into the Three Mile Island Accident. Mr. Frampton was also an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973-75.
From 1971-72, Mr. Frampton served as Law Clerk to Supreme Court 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 a professor of International Environmental Law and Policy at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
