Mike Pence Lawyers Up Over Russia Probe, Lawyer’s Firm Boasts Of “Extensive Experience” With Russia

CNN reports:

Vice President Mike Pence has hired his own lawyer to represent him in the special counsel investigation and congressional inquiries into Russia’s role in the 2016 election. The lawyer, Richard Cullen, is a former Virginia attorney general and a former US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. Pence interviewed several lawyers before selecting Cullen, who is based in Richmond.

The decision to hire Cullen has been in the works for weeks, aides to the vice president said. It follows President Donald Trump’s decision to assemble a team of outside lawyers to represent him through the Justice Department special counsel’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The vice president made the final decision to hire Cullen earlier this week, and aide told CNN, and stressed that the decision to hire Cullen was not prompted by anything.

From the website of Cullen’s firm:

With more than 40 lawyers and consultants in our Russia and CIS group, our International practice has extensive experience in the successor countries of the Former Soviet Union including: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and the Baltic countries, which are now covered by our Nordic and Baltic group.

A number of our lawyers, consultants, and staff interested in these countries speak Georgian, Mongolian, Russian and Ukrainian. Firmwide our lawyers, consultants and staff speak more than 40 languages. We have represented clients, with our litigation and arbitration experience, in the regional courts of commercial arbitration, the Supreme Court of Arbitration of Russia and before arbitration bodies in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Tajikistan and Ukraine.

We have also represented clients before both the criminal and civil courts in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus and elsewhere in the region. We have also represented client interests before international arbitration tribunals in Stockholm, Vienna, Geneva, Zurich, Paris, New York, London and several other international locations. Similarly, we have represented regional clients in domestic jurisdictions throughout the US and Europe. We represented the Government of Kazakhstan in its international arbitration needs for several years.