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    • About Mark Fabiani

    An accomplished communications executive with many years of experience, Mark Fabiani currently serves as a Principal at Fabiani & Lehane LLC, a strategic communications firm with locations in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. He and his partner Chris Lehane provide strategic guidance for the company as it lends its services to businesses, public sector institutions, trade groups, and candidates for public office. Mark Fabiani also works closely with individuals facing a wide range of complex challenges, including branding, legal, media, marketing, and image management.

    Since co-founding Fabiani & Lehane in 2001, Mark Fabiani has served in a number of strategic roles with a diverse array of organizations. He served as the Deputy Campaign Manager for Communications and Strategy for the Gore for President 2000 campaign, where he played an integral role in the development of campaign strategy and tactics. In addition to serving as a Special Counsel to the President of the San Diego Chargers, Mark Fabiani formerly worked as a Special Counsel to the President of the United States and as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General with the Department of Justice. A former Law Clerk with the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Fabiani served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as a Deputy Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, and Chief of Staff to Mayor Tom Bradley.

    Mark Fabiani holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Fabiani also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Redlands.

    <b>PROFILE: Fabiani and Lehane elect to serve corporate America</b>

    After Al Gore's sobering defeat in his bid for the White House, consultants Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane decided to use their legal and PR expertise to resuscitate beleaguered corporations. By Julia Hood.

    by Julia Hood 07 October 2002

    After Al Gore's sobering defeat in his bid for the White House, consultants Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane decided to use their legal and PR expertise to resuscitate beleaguered corporations. By Julia Hood.

    Any reporter writing about Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani will invoke the nickname that became attached to them during the Whitewater investigation of the Clintons: Masters of Disaster. It's just not possible to avoid it. The two were most recently in the national spotlight during Al Gore's bid for the Presidency, with Fabiani serving as deputy campaign manager for communications and strategy and Lehane as campaign press secretary. Now Lehane and Fabiani, following the closest election in history that saw their candidate defeated, have redirected their expertise to the corporate world. Given the pair's reputation for tackling the unpleasant and the controversial, one might expect corporate leaders to shy away from a connection with them. But it is clear that many companies find their need for high-level counsel outweighs any negative association. "Given their specialty and their notoriety, when they get brought in, the client is usually in more trouble to get out of than into," says Mike McCurry, former press secretary for President Clinton, now CEO of Grassroots Enterprises. Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post, who penned a detailed account of Gore's campaign communications strategy, says the two don't shy away from the fame, but offer tangible advantages to corporations. "They certainly enjoy their 'Masters of Disaster' notoriety, and in politics these days, having a high-profile consultant is becoming par for the course," Kurtz says i

    Chris Lehane

    American political consultant (born 1967)

    Christopher Stephen Lehane (born June 2, 1967) is an American political consultant and cryptocurrency executive who has served as a lawyer, spokesperson and expert in opposition research for the Clinton White House, Democratic candidates for public office and various business, Labor, entertainment and professional sports organizations. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, he was a lawyer and spokesperson in the Clinton White House where he and his current business partner Mark Fabiani were called the Masters of Disaster by Newsweek magazine for their part in a "rapid-response" team employed to respond to the increasing number of investigations of the Clinton Administration. In 2012, Lehane co-authored a book on damage control titled Masters of Disaster published by Palgrave, MacMillan's academic imprint. He also wrote and produced the film Knife Fight, a political satire acquired by IFC and released in January 2013.

    From 2015 until 2022, Lehane served as the Head of Global Policy and Public Affairs for home-sharing startup Airbnb. He joined Haun Ventures, a crypto investment firm, in 2022, and is known for his strong support of blockchain technology, and his proposal for a new deal for Web3.

    Political work

    In 1992, Lehane was the political director of the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign in Maine, and was later brought into the White House where he served as a lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office who worked as part of a small unit responsible for helping the White House manage various scandals throughout the 1990s such as Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair.

    In 1995, Lehane authored a 332-page memo on a media "conspiracy" against the Clintons, of which only 2 and a half pages are written text; the remainder being newspaper and internet clippings

    Mark D. Fabiani

    Mark D. Fabiani (born 1957) is an American political strategist, crisis management expert, former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles and chief of staff to MayorTom Bradley, and former White House lawyer and spokesman. He is recognized for his work as special counsel to President Bill Clinton and legal spokesperson for the Clinton White House from 1994 through 1996, as well as for his work as head of communications for the Gorepresidential campaign in 2000. He also served in senior positions at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and at the Department of Justice.

    Fabiani and his business partner, Chris Lehane, were dubbed the "Masters of Disaster" by Newsweek as a result of the rapid-response strategy the pair employed throughout the Clinton Administration. In 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom described Fabiani as "the best the Democrats have got." The pair operate the California-based strategic communications firm Fabiani & Lehane LLC.

    Since 2002, Fabiani has served as special counsel to San Diego Chargers president Dean Spanos.

    Education

    Fabiani graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Redlands. He earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1982. While at Harvard, Fabiani served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and as the lead research assistant for Professor Alan Dershowitz. Fabiani was top speaker at the (collegiate) National Debate Tournament in 1979.

    Career

    Los Angeles Mayor's chief of staff

    Fabiani became Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley's chief of staff in 1989. The LA Times reported that friends and rivals alike described Fabiani, who was 32 years old at the time,

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