Varun Jain is admitted to practice in Maryland. He is not currently admitted in the District of Columbia. He is supervised by a member of the D.C. Bar.
Varun Jain is of counsel in the firm’s Public Policy and Law practice group. His broad public and private sector experience—the White House, US Department of Transportation, a multinational ride-sharing service company, and an autonomous vehicle startup—help him solve tough legal, regulatory, and policy issues in the transportation and emerging technologies spaces, especially autonomous vehicles.
Varun was most recently a Deputy General Counsel at the US Department of Transportation, where he provided strategic guidance on regulation, consumer protection, and other matters as well as helped oversee a departmental legal team of nearly 500 attorneys. Before that, Varun served as Senior Counselor to the Administrator at the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, where he led high-impact regulatory initiatives across a broad portfolio that included transportation, health, labor, education, agriculture, veterans, and defense; developed a sophisticated understanding of the Federal regulatory process; and led the office’s experimentation with artificial intelligence. Varun began his legal career working on administrative law and regulatory matters as an Assistant General Counsel at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
Between his time in public service, Varun was in-house counsel at a multinational ride-sharing service company and an autonomous vehicle startup. There he provided extensive advice on day-to-day regulatory and operational issues, product launches, permitting strategy, investigations, and crisis management. He also worked closely with federal, state, and local policy officials, regulators, and agency staff to advance thoughtful legislation and regulations, including by testifying before a public utilities commission.
In his free time, he enjoys coding.
