Mark Grider, ’98, joined the White House In March as special assistant to the president and senior associate counsel. Grider left Husch Blackwell, where he had been a partner since 2016. Grider’s practice focused on white-collar matters, government investigations and regulator enforcement. Grider’s public service career includes stints as a special trial attorney in the Justice Department’s criminal fraud section, and as deputy general counsel for the House Select Committee on Benghazi.