Karl R. Thompson

Karl R. Thompson
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Acting
In office March 24, 2014 – January 20, 2017
Preceded by	Virginia A. Seitz
Succeeded by	Curtis E. Gannon (Acting)
Personal details
Born	Karl Remón Thompson
Alma mater	Harvard University (A.B., 1991) University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1998) University of Chicago (J.D., 2000)
Profession	Lawyer

Karl R. Thompson is an American lawyer and was the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice from 2014 until 20 January 2017.

Thompson received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1991, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1998, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors in 2000.

Thompson clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2002 Term. He worked in private practice at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers, specializing in international and appellate litigation. He then joined the Office of Legal Counsel as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General. He later became Deputy Assistant Attorney General and also served as Counselor to the Attorney General. In March 2014, he became Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel, serving as the acting head of the office.

In late 2009 the New York Post and the Washington Times started to criticize the Obama Presidency for its employment of lawyers who had help provide legal assistance to Guantanamo captives. At first the New York Post and the Washington Times only named two of the nine lawyers they were reporting had "aided terrorists". But March 2010 the other seven had been named, including Thompson.

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