Mr. Slocombe is senior counsel in Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington DC office. He first joined the firm as an associate in 1971 and became a member in 1974. He served as undersecretary of defense for policy from 1994 to 2001, and in 2003, as senior advisor for National Defense in the Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq. In 2004, President Bush appointed him to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. He earned his law degree from Harvard University.