McCrary, Kevin M.

Zaid A. Zaid is a senior associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the Investigations and Criminal Litigation Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2010 after clerkships on the First and Second Circuit, as well as on the District Court for the District of Columbia.

Practice

Mr. Zaid completed a summer clerkship in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the United States Department of State, where he drafted memos concerning the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and researched for NAFTA Chapter 11 investment claims against the US Government.

Mr. Zaid was a political officer in the Foreign Service from 1999 to 2006, and he worked at US embassies in Syria, Tunis, Cairo, the US Mission to the United Nations, and with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq as the liaison to the Iraqi Governing Council as well as at the US Embassy in Baghdad. 

Professional Activities

Mr. Zaid is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association. He is the chair of the Fletcher Alumni Club of Washington DC, a board member of ECOSEAN USA, a member of the American Constitution Society, a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow with the Truman National Security Project.

Awards and Honors

• Coalition Provisional Authority, Service Citation for Exemplary Work
• US Department of State Meritorious Honor Award

Publications

• “Do We Still Owe Iraq?,” 1 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 291 (2007)
• “Continually Creating Races: The Census in the United States and Brazil,” 20 Nat’l Black L.J. 42 (2007)