Mr. Rudolph William Giuliani | Attorney

Giuliani is a lawyer and politician from New York City. During his political career, Giuliani was initially a Democrat, then an Independent, and finally a Republication. He served as a US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and focused his career on combating corruption in politics.

Giuliani is native to Brooklyn, NYC. He attended Manhattan College in the Bronx, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and minored in philosophy. He graduated from Manhattan College in 1965, and then enrolled at the New York University School of Law in Manhattan. He graduated, cum laude, with a JD in 1968.

Following graduation, Giuliani clerked for Judge Lloyd Francis MacMahon, the US District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He was not called to serve in active duty during the Vietnam War, and used the opportunity to join the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Three years later, in 1973, he became Chief of the Narcotics Unit and the premier US executive attorney.

Two years later, Giuliani, a former Democrat who volunteered for Robert Kennedy's campaign, became a registered Independent. He was appointed the Associate Deputy Attorney General in 1975 by the Ford administration. Shortly after, he prosecuted a US Representative accused of corruption. From 1977 to 1981, Giuliani worked for the law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler.

In 1981, Giuliani assumed the role of Associate Attorney General for the Reagan administration. In 1982, he defended the US government's actions of detaining over 2,000 Haitian immigrants who entered the country illegally. Two years later, in 1983, Giuliani was appointed the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. As such, he prosecuted drug dealers and fought organized crime. Between 1985 and 1986, Giuliani indicted 11 organized crime figures, including prominent New York mafia members. Collectively, the accused served hundreds of years of prison time.

Giuliani negotiated a conviction agreement with Wall Street trader Ivan Boesky, and he brought charges against junk bond trader Michael Milkin, including 98 counts of racketeering and fraud. Giuliani served as US Attorney until 1989, the end of the Reagan Administration. He then joined the firm White & Case in NYC before switching to work for Anderson Kill Olick & Oshinsky, another New York firm, in 1990.

Giuliani joined the race for mayor of New York City in 1989, but lost the race by a margin to rival David Dinkins. Giuliani ran again in 1993 and won, becoming the city's first Republican mayor since 1965. He was re-elected mayor in 1997 and served until 2001. Giuliani targeted organized crime as mayor, and his supporters credit him with a decline in crime rates in NYC through the 1990s and into 2000. While in office, Giuliani privatized struggling public schools and pushed for greater school choice.

In 2001, unable to run for a third term as mayor, Giuliani entered the race for US Senate. Due to personal issues and lagging in the polls, he dropped out of the race. Giuliani remained mayor of NYC through early 2001 through emergency provisions following the 9/11 terror attack. Following his tenure as mayor, Giuliani took a break from politics to endorse George W. Bush in his 2004 campaign.

Giuliani entered the 2008 presidential campaign, but eventually trailed behind fellow Republican candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain. He ultimately withdrew from the race and supported McCain.  Later that year, he returned to work at his two enterprises, Giuliani Partners and Bracewell & Giuliani.

Despite leaving the political spotlight, Giuliani endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. He also served as adviser to Trump on the ban to end immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. Giuliani returned to work for Bracewell & Giuliani in 2005, then moved to the firm Greenberg Traurig in 2016, where he has served as a global chairman for its cybersecurity and crisis management