Former special counsel Jack Smith is launching a new law firm with those who helped him in his investigation of President Trump. Smith is joined by Timothy Heaphy, a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher who served as chief investigative counsel for the House committee that probed the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protest, Bloomberg Law reports.
Others at the firm include former government lawyers who challenged President Trump as well as Smith aide Thomas Windom and David Harbach, a former partner with O’Melveny & Myers who was involved in the classified documents case.
Heaphy shared with the outlet that the firm will “focus on trial work and investigations,” Bloomberg Law says, although most details remain unknown until the firm launches in January.
The development comes as Smith has been subpoenaed by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and now faces a closed-door deposition on December 17.
“The Committee on the Judiciary is continuing to conduct oversight of the operations of the Office of Special Counsel you led—specifically, your team’s prosecutions of President Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants. Due to your service as Special Counsel, the Committee believes that you possess information that is vital to its oversight of this matter,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Smith. “Based upon communications with your counsel, we understand that you are available to testify at a deposition on December 17, 2025. Accordingly, please find enclosed a testimonial subpoena for a deposition at 10:00 a.m. on December 17, 2025 and a document subpoena for the requested materials to be produced to the Committee by December 12, 2025.”
Windom has similarly been under the eye of the House Judiciary Committee. “Windom’s improper refusal to answer nearly all questions during his deposition obstructed the Committee’s fact-finding,” Jordan wrote in his letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to prosecute the Smith ally. “As a senior assistant to Special Counsel Jack Smith, Windom possesses unique, firsthand information about the work of that Office. Yet, despite being given express authorization by DOJ on two separate occasions, Windom declined to answer questions during his deposition about topics necessary and relevant to the Committee’s inquiry.”
