Stephen M. Cutler is a lawyer and was the Director of the Division of Enforcement for the

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from 2001 until 2005. He spent most of his career at the law firm

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, also known as Hale & Dorr and WilmerHale, is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. It is co-headquartered in Washington, D.C. and Boston. It was formed in 2004 thr ...

, and became General Counsel of

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. As of 2022, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, the ...

in February, 2007. After graduating from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

with a B.A. (summa cum laude), Cutler earned a J.D. from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

where he was an editor for the Yale Law Journal. Cutler law clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then worked for the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles. In 2016, Bloomberg reported that Cutler had been participating in secret meetings with his counterparts at

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., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and

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in order to discuss a collective legal strategy on matters of pressing concern to the financial institutions represented. Cutler is now a partner and Global Head of the Government and Internal Investigations practice at the law firm

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is an international white shoe law firm headquartered in New York City. The firm specializes in litigation and corporate practices, particularly mergers and acquisitions, with over 1,000 attorneys in 11 offices w ...

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Living people American lawyers JPMorgan Chase people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr people Yale Law School alumni {{law-bio-stub Simpson Thacher & Bartlett people