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Elaine W. Stone

Until recently, Elaine Stone was a partner in Covington & Burling’s White Collar and Defense and Investigations Practice. She has now joined Rebecca Diaz-Bonilla in her communications consulting practice.  Elaine brings to bear her many years practicing law -- in private practice, the government, and a highly reputed think tank – as well as her deep experience in working with and mentoring younger lawyers and her own work in acting and performance.   Both with Diaz-Bonilla and singly, she has conducted training sessions for attorneys at the Department of Justice, counseled individual clients, and taught as an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

While at Covington, Elaine developed a specialty in conducting independent investigations of sexual misconduct, including for the CBS Board of Directors, Choate Rosemary Hall, The Brearley School and other institutions.  This expertise built upon her lead roles in conducting numerous other sensitive and high-profile investigations, including for the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity.

Elaine also served on Covington’s Management Committee and as the firm’s Managing Partner for Associate Life and Development, a role specifically created for her.  In this and other associate-related management roles, Ms. Stone worked to develop and improve the firm’s training with respect to oral presentation and other skills and to implement changes to the evaluation of associates. For this work, she was shortlisted for the Chambers USA Women in Law Award for Mentoring Lawyer of the Year, an award honoring outstanding women lawyers who demonstrated commitment to furthering the advancement of women in the legal profession. Ms. Stone’s devotion to and development of the firm’s younger lawyers was among her most important achievements at the firm. 

Elaine joined Covington in 1999 and retired in 2018. Prior to joining the firm, she served as Counsel to the Impeachment Trial Committee of the United States Senate with respect to impeachment proceedings against a federal judge; as Associate Counsel to the AEI-Brookings Project on the Independent Counsel Project, headed by former Senate leaders George Mitchell and Bob Dole; and as an Assistant District Attorney in Nueces County, Texas.