J.P. Cooney

Partner

J.P. Cooney was a federal prosecutor for almost eighteen years and played a pivotal role in several of the nation’s most consequential prosecutions of public officials.

Mr. Cooney was the Chief of the D.C. United States Attorney’s Office’s Fraud, Public Corruption, and Civil Rights Section, where he supervised a wide variety of complex criminal investigations and prosecutions. Mr. Cooney also previously served as Deputy Chief and Trial Attorney in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section.

Most recently, he was the principal Deputy to Special Counsel Jack Smith, where he served as the chief operating officer.

He began his career as a prosecutor handling violent crime and homicide in the D.C. United States Attorney’s Office, and before that was an associate at a large law firm in Washington, D.C.

Clerkship:
Judge Robert G. Doumar, Eastern District of Virginia

Education:
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
B.A., University of Notre Dame

Bar Admissions:
District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia

Molly Gaston

Partner

Molly Gaston served as a federal prosecutor for almost ten years, focusing on public corruption and civil rights offenses. Before that, she specialized in congressional investigations—both in conducting them and responding to them.

Ms. Gaston served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General, advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General on the Justice Department’s criminal matters.

Before her work in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Gaston was a supervisor in the D.C. United States Attorney’s Office and a trial attorney in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section.

Most recently, Ms. Gaston was a Senior Assistant Special Counsel in the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Prior to becoming a prosecutor, Ms. Gaston worked as a counsel in the House of Representatives, conducting congressional investigations, and then joined the Justice Department where she responded to such investigations in roles in the Office of Legislative Affairs and the Office of the Attorney General.

Education:
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
A.B., Princeton University

Bar Admissions:
Virginia