Trump Said to Weigh Aide Conway’s Husband for Top Legal Job
- Corporate lawyer George Conway considered as solicitor general
- Conway has handled high-profile clients for law firm
Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, speaks to members of the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, on Dec. 15.
Photographer: Albin Lohr-Jones/BloombergPresident-elect Donald Trump is considering George Conway, a long-time corporate lawyer and the husband of senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, to be U.S. solicitor general, the government’s top appellate lawyer, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Conway, who’s spent more than two decades as a partner at New York corporate legal powerhouse Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, has made a career representing high-profile clients from the National Football League to tobacco maker Philip Morris, according to his biography on the firm’s website. He wasn’t directly involved in Trump’s presidential campaign, which was managed by his wife.