Mr. Hess is a founding Partner and Senior Managing Director of Giuliani Partners LLC. Mr. Hess served as the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. As the chief lawyer for the City, he supervised a Law Department of over 1,500 staff, including 700 attorneys. The Law Department is among the largest public law offices in the nation. In addition to litigating thousands of trial and appellate cases, the Corporation Counsel's Office performs the legal work for the municipal finance, real estate, and economic development projects of the City.

Mr. Hess commenced his career in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. There he rose to Chief of the Civil Division, representing the United States in numerous major cases, including the Pentagon Papers case against the New York Times. Prior to serving as the City's head lawyer, Mr. Hess was a senior partner in three prominent New York City law firms, practicing in such areas as litigation, antitrust, bankruptcy, securities, finance, and commercial law.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Hess has extensive business and management experience. Serving as a trustee appointed by the federal government, he operated the S&A Concrete Company, one of the largest concrete and construction businesses in the City. With Mayor Giuliani, he also supervised the revitalization of New York City’s Off-Track Betting Corporation, turning it around from a losing enterprise to one of the most valuable OTBs in the nation.
Mr. Hess is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Yale College. He also graduated from the Harvard Law School, which recently awarded him a Wasserstein Fellowship. He has lectured at the Yale School of Management and at many prominent law schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, New York University, and Fordham. In addition, Mr. Hess served for seven years as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New York’s Horace Mann School in Riverdale.