Name almost any legal dispute involving the House of Representatives, and chances are Kerry Kircher is on the case.

As general counsel to the House since 2011, Kircher, 59, has negotiated with the Obama Justice Department to obtain documents from the “Fast and Furious” operation. And he signed the multi million -dollar contract with Bancroft’s Paul Clement to defend the Defense of Marriage Act — which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down nonetheless in June.