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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInPeace Returns to Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office, Now as Boss – Bloomberg
Breon Peace, who began his career as a prosecutor under the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn two decades ago, is now running the office, one of the busiest in the nation. Appointed by President Joe Biden and sworn in Friday, Peace becomes the third Black lawyer to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of […]
Former Southern District Prosecutor Sarah Krissoff Joins Day Pitney’s White Collar Practice in New York | Day Pitney LLP
Sarah Krissoff has joined Day Pitney as a partner in the firm’s Government Enforcement and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. Previously, she served with distinction for over a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She is based in the firm’s New York office. […]
Troutman Pepper’s Boston Office Adds Jordi de Llano, Former Deputy Chief of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts
Jordi de Llano, an experienced federal prosecutor, has joined Troutman Pepper’s national White Collar and Government Investigations Practice Group. De Llano most recently was the Deputy Chief of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, the state’s top federal law enforcement agency. Source: Troutman […]
New Top Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn Are Confirmed – The New York Times
The U.S. Senate confirmed Damian Williams late Tuesday as the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the office of Senator Chuck Schumer said, making Mr. Williams the first African American to lead one of the nation’s most powerful federal prosecutor’s offices. Source: New Top Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn Are […]
Senior DOJ official Daniel Kahn to rejoin Davis Polk as partner | Davis Polk
Davis Polk today announced that veteran prosecutor and senior Department of Justice official Daniel Kahn will join the firm as a partner in the White Collar Defense & Investigations practice in Washington DC. He will focus on representing clients in criminal and regulatory investigations, as well as in civil and criminal trials. Source: Senior DOJ […]
Former U.S. Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, David L. Anderson and Sheila A.G. Armbrust, Rejoin Sidley
Sidley is pleased to announce that David L. Anderson and Sheila A.G. Armbrust have rejoined the firm as partners in its San Francisco office after serving as the U.S. Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, respectively. Mr. Anderson and Ms. Armbrust are members of the firm’s White Collar: Government Litigation […]
Wilson Sonsini Adds Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Lonergan to Litigation Department | Wilson Sonsini
Most recently, Lonergan spent more than 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. While in this position, she led more than 175 grand jury investigations and prosecutions involving bribery, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, bank and wire fraud, […]
Biden picks Damian Williams for top federal prosecutor job in Manhattan | Reuters
President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated veteran prosecutor Damian Williams to be the U.S. attorney for Manhattan, which would put him in charge of one of the most high-profile federal prosecutor offices in the country. Biden also announced seven other U.S. attorney nominations, including the Eastern District of New York as well as the Eastern […]
Former SDNY Corruption Unit Chief Joins McDermott – McDermott Will & Emery
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced that Edward (Ted) Diskant has joined the Firm’s New York office as a partner in its Litigation Practice. Ted is the former head of the Public Corruption Unit in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he led a team of approximately […]
Mark Lytle, highly accomplished federal prosecutor, joins Nixon Peabody – Nixon Peabody
Nixon Peabody LLP announced that Mark D. Lytle, a highly accomplished former federal prosecutor and white-collar trial attorney, is joining the firm as a partner in the Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense practice, based in Washington, DC. As chief of the Financial Crimes and Public Corruption Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern […]