Jeffrey L. Bleich
Stanford, CA
Stanford University Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences
Amherst College, B.A.
Harvard University, M.P.P
University of California-Berkeley School of Law, J.D.
JEFF BLEICH is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a federally-appointed mediator for complex litigation. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, Special Counsel to President Obama in the White House. Special Master in the U.S. District Court for MDL litigation, Chief Legal Officer of Cruise LLC, and a partner at both Munger, Tolles & Olson and Dentons. He has over three decades experience in resolving complex domestic and international disputes. For his federal service, Ambassador Bleich received numerous awards, including the Sue Cobb Medal, the State Department's highest award for a non-career ambassador.
As an attorney, Mr. Bleich specializes in disruptive technologies, cybersecurity and international disputes. He has been honored as California Lawyer Attorney of the Year, Los Angelese Times General Counsel of the Year, the Burton Award for "Legends of the Law", and has been regularly listed among the Daily Journal's 100 most influential attorneys in California, in the LawDragon's top 500, and in America's Best Lawyers as a top "Bet the Company" lawyer.
Outside his professional practice, Mr. Bleich served on several boards,including as Chair of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Mr. Bleich has also served as the Chair of PG&E Company during its 2019-2020 bankruptcy reorganization, Chair of the California State University Board of Trustees, President of the California State Bar, President of the Bar Association of San Francisco, Chair of the ABA’s Amicus Curiae Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Amherst College. He has been elected as a life member to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Bleich has taught several courses at UC Berkeley School of Law, and publishes extensively. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Amherst College, an M.P.P from Harvard with highest honors, a J.D. from the Univ. of California, Berkeley with highest honors, an honorary Doctor of Laws from S.F. State University and honorary Doctorates of the University from Griffith University and Flinders University.
Mr. Bleich clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Howard Holtzmann of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague.
