How David Kendall Fights for the Clintons

Bill and Hillary Clinton's longtime personal lawyer, David Kendall, is no stranger to managing legal proceedings on behalf of high-profile clients. Yet more than 20 years after he was brought on to take charge of representing the Clintons in the Whitewater investigations, Kendall seems to remain almost resistant to managing public perception even as cases take on increasingly thornier political implications.

On Tuesday, after five months of resistance, Hillary Clinton directed aides to hand over to the Justice Department the personal e-mail server she used to conduct government business as secretary of state, her presidential campaign said. The move came amid revelations that it contained at least two e-mails classified as top secret. Even Kendall himself turned over copies of Clinton's e-mails he'd kept on a thumb drive. Yet Kendall, who works at the Washington white-shoe firm Williams & Connolly, said little publicly about the decision even as media outlets like the Washington Post pronounced that the matter “just keeps getting worse” for Clinton.