Cliff Sloan

Sloan is currently a Dean's Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and retired partner for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates.

[1] Sloan graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois in 1975[2] and was senior class president and editor-in-chief of the yearbook.

In the 1990 movie Reversal of Fortune, about the case, Sloan and Spitzer are portrayed by Felicity Huffman and Annabella Sciorra.

[4] In 2000, he joined the Washington Post Co. as vice president of business affairs and general counsel at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and publisher of Slate, the company's online magazine.

[11] In 2009, Sloan co-authored the book The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court with David McKean.

[13][7] On June 16, 2013, The New York Times, Fox News, National Public Radio, Reuters, and several other press sources reported that President Barack Obama would appoint Sloan as the new State Department envoy tasked to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by negotiating with countries which might accept the transfer of captives.

[24] In September 2020, he co-authored a piece that argued "there is simply no moral or legal justification for allowing Guantánamo to persist as a forgotten black hole suffocating 40 human beings.

"[25] On February 5, 2019, The New York Times reported that Sloan, again serving as partner at the Skadden law firm, worked on the Paul Manafort-linked lobbying project for the Russia-aligned former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.

In an email cited in the law firm's $4.6 million settlement with the Justice Department over the issue, Sloan had written to another Skadden partner, Gregory Craig, that "the Ukraine payment situation" could "put us in a very deep hole in the western press…" and recommended that "we need to get it out there as soon as we can.