Marc Scheineson
Marc Scheineson
Partner, Alston & Bird
Marc Scheineson is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Alston & Bird. He heads the firm’s food and drug law practice. Marc previously served as Associate Commissioner for Legislative Affairs at the FDA. He came to Washington, D.C. to work as Legislative Assistant and Counsel to Rep. Bill Gradison (R-OH), the ranking member of the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. In addition, he worked as a regulatory FDA lawyer for another national law firm, and Senior Vice President of Ketchum Communications and as a principal in its government relations unit. He is a former Co-Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Food and Drug Law; chaired the Task Force on FDA Reform and is a former Chair of the Young Lawyers Section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Marc received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Cincinnati and its College of Law and his L.L.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center.