Donald E. deKieffer

DeKieffer died of a heart attack on February 18, 2011, in Boulder, Colorado.

In 1993, deKieffer co-founded deKieffer & Horgan, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm whose focus was international trade. From 2004 to 2011, he was the president of EDDI Inc., "a Washington-based company that maintains databases relating to product counterfeiters and diverters."

DeKieffer was educated at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1968, and he earned a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1971.

DeKieffer began his career as a speechwriter for the Senate Republican Policy Committee, where he worked from 1968 to 1971. He also worked as an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was general counsel for the Office of the United States Trade Representative from 1981 to 1983.

Donald E. deKieffer (November 8, 1945 - February 18, 2011) was an American lawyer. He was the co-founder of deKieffer & Horgan, a Washington, D.C.-based international law firm, and the president of EDDI Inc., an anticounterfeiting and antidiversion company. In the 1970s, he acted as a lobbyist for the South African apartheid regime. He was the author of two books.

Donald E. deKieffer was born on November 8, 1945, in Newport, Rhode Island.