Martine E. Cicconi, Partner, State Attorneys General | Akin

Martine E. Cicconi

Partner

Areas of Focus

Martine E. Cicconi, Partner, State Attorneys General | Akin

Martine E. Cicconi

Partner

mcicconi@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel.
  • Served as Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Virginia Attorney General.
  • Co-leads the firm’s nationwide state attorneys general practice.

Martine focuses her practice on high-profile litigation and government investigations matters, particularly those brought by state attorneys general. With experience in both the public and private sectors, she provides clients with comprehensive, strategic advice to guide them through state attorney general investigations and enforcement actions.

Martine is ranked by Chambers USA, where clients describe her as “a very talented lawyer” who is “extremely smart with impressive depth of experience,” who provides “excellent client service” and who has “an incredible body of substantive knowledge and commercial awareness.” As noted by Chambers, she is “an intelligent and complex thinker, able to take thorny legal issues and see a path through. She is extraordinarily analytical and works through complex legal problems.”

Martine served as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel. In this role, she provided legal advice on sensitive, complex matters to senior Executive Branch officials, led the White House response on matters of congressional oversight and investigations by inspectors general, and advised on litigation implicating executive privilege and related issues. Martine also served as Associate Counsel in the same office during the Obama administration.

Prior to joining the Biden White House, Martine served as Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Virginia Attorney General, where she was an appellate and trial litigator. She argued major cases in federal and state courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the Virginia Supreme Court, and was the lead drafter for numerous multistate amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court. Martine also served in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel as an Attorney Advisor, where she provided advice to Executive Branch agencies on constitutional and statutory issues, specializing in matters related to congressional oversight and executive privilege.

Martine spent several years as a counsel in Akin’s Supreme Court and Appellate and congressional investigations practices. She briefed and argued cases in the federal courts of appeal and U.S. Supreme Court and advised clients on matters related to congressional and other high-visibility investigations.

Martine served as a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

“Martine is excellent to work with, providing excellent client service. She has an incredible body of substantive knowledge and commercial awareness.”

Chambers USA, 2024

Education
  • J.D., Stanford Law School, 2010

  • B.A., Stanford University, with distinction, 2007

Clerkships
  • U.S. Supreme Court

  • U.S.C.A., D.C. Circuit

Bar Admissions
  • California

  • District of Columbia

Recognitions
  • Chambers USA, State Attorneys General, 2024.
  • Akin, Pro Bono Associate of the Year, 2017.
Affiliations and Public Service
  • Special Assistant to the President and Senior Counsel, Office of the White House Counsel, 2021 to 2022.
  • Deputy Solicitor General, Office of the Virginia Attorney General, 2019 to 2021.
  • Associate Counsel, Office of the White House Counsel, 2016 to 2017.
  • Attorney Advisor, Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, 2013 to 2016.
Speeches and Publications
  • “From Eastman to the West Wing: Legal Ethics Challenges Arising from the January 6 Committee,” 2023 Houston Bar Association Ethics Program, March 7, 2023.
  • “Congressional Investigations in the 116th Congress and Implications for the Private Sector,” Association of Corporate Counsel, Washington, D.C., March 26, 2019.

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