About Bill
Bill McQuillen is a Washington, D.C.-based Managing Director at FTI Consulting’s Crisis & Litigation Communications practice, specializing in litigation communications and public affairs. Mr. McQuillen specializes in media strategy development and relationship management with top-tier and trade media organizations. He has a proven record of success navigating crises on Capitol Hill and Wall Street while protecting and enhancing the reputation of U.S.-based businesses and foreign entities.
Before joining FTI Consulting, Mr. McQuillen was a vice president at Invariant, a top government relations and communications firm. A leader in the communications department, Mr. McQuillen worked with law firms, Fortune 500 clients and trade associations to ensure development and dissemination of results-driven messaging to drive media coverage and influence actions among lawmakers, regulators and consumers. Additionally, he served as an executive vice president and Washington, D.C. media lead for Burson (formerly Burson Cohn & Wolfe), and as the vice president for communications at the American Hotel and Lodging Association. In these roles, Mr. McQuillen conducted hundreds of media and presentation trainings for corporate leaders and government officials, ranging from large groups to one-on-one sessions.
Mr. McQuillen started his career as a journalist, spending 15 years at Bloomberg News largely as a legal correspondent, focusing on mass tort litigation, intellectual property and the U.S. Department of Justice, and has worked in bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and Wilmington, Delaware. He has broken and covered legal affairs stories that resulted in billion-dollar financial transactions in the stock market. His coverage areas have also included international trade and labor, global economics, the 2004 U.S. presidential election and the White House.
Mr. McQuillen is a Washington D.C. native who was raised in San Antonio, Texas. He received his B.A. from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., and a Masters of Studies in Law from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Education
Masters of Studies in Law (“M.S.L.”), Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Politics, The Catholic University of America
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Contact
T: +1 202 753 5200
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Office
555 12th Street, NW
Suite 501
Washington, DC 20004
United States
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Expertise
Litigation Communications
Litigation Support & Consulting Services
Media Relations
Public Affairs
Reputation Management