--- title: Donald Trump Jr. Hires Alan Futerfas in Russia Investigation description: Donald Trump Jr. has hired a lawyer to represent him in Russia-related investigations, his office and the lawyer said on Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4852132/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas-russia-investigation/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-10T20:31:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:29:55.838Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Jr. Hires Lawyer to Represent Him in Russia Investigation og:description: He hired Alan Futerfas, who specializes in criminal defense og:url: https://time.com/4852132/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas-russia-investigation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b7dbe904deee91/6988d523ab6d779b7e6aee73/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: 139th White House Easter Egg Roll og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Jr. Hires Lawyer to Represent Him in Russia Investigation twitter:description: He hired Alan Futerfas, who specializes in criminal defense twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b7dbe904deee91/6988d523ab6d779b7e6aee73/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Jr. Hires Attorney Alan Futerfas to Represent Him in Russia Investigation > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump, Jr. attends the 139th White House Easter Egg Roll at The White House on April 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. Leigh Vogel—WireImage/Getty Images by [Karen Freifeld / Reuters](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Karen Freifeld / Reuters Jul 10, 2017 8:31 PM UTC Donald Trump Jr. has hired a lawyer to represent him in Russia-related investigations, his office and the lawyer said on Monday, as Republicans voiced concern about a meeting between the U.S. president’s son and a Russian. Trump Jr. hired New York lawyer Alan Futerfas, who specializes in criminal defense. Futerfas would not say when he was retained or whether he played any part in the statements Trump Jr. made over the weekend about a meeting with a Russian lawyer. > [](https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/884498980788416512) Trump Jr. met the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, in June 2016 during the presidential election campaign at Trump Tower in New York. Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump‘s then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, also attended, the New York Times said. It called the encounter the first confirmed private meeting of members of Donald Trump‘s inner circle with a Russian national. Congressional committees and a federal special counsel, Robert Mueller, are investigating whether Russia interfered in the election and colluded with the Trump campaign. Moscow denies interfering, and Trump, who became president on Jan. 20, says there was no collusion. Trump Jr. has said he agreed to meet Veselnitskaya, described by the Times as having links to the Kremlin, after being promised damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Futerfas told Reuters: “I look forward to assisting Donald Jr. and, quite frankly, there is nothing to all of the media buzz about the June 9th, 2016 meeting. That will be proven to be the case.” Earlier on Monday, a Republican member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, Susan Collins, called on Donald Trump Jr. to testify before the panel, which is looking into accusations of Russian meddling in the election. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4852132/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas-russia-investigation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4852132/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas-russia-investigation/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Jr. Hires Attorney Alan Futerfas to Represent Him in Russia Investigation","datePublished":"2017-07-10T20:31:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:29:55.838Z","description":"Futerfas specializes in criminal defense","url":"https://time.com/4852132/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas-russia-investigation/","keywords":["Russia Investigation","Law","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b7dbe904deee91/6988d523ab6d779b7e6aee73/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Karen Freifeld / Reuters"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b7dbe904deee91/6988d523ab6d779b7e6aee73/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"139th White House Easter Egg Roll","caption":"139th White House Easter Egg Roll","creditText":"Leigh Vogel—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/russia-investigation/","name":"Russia Investigation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4852132/donald-trump-jr-alan-futerfas-russia-investigation/","name":"Donald Trump Jr. Hires Attorney Alan Futerfas to Represent Him in Russia Investigation"}}]}] ```