laterals/hiring

Irv Nathan Nominated for D.C. Attorney General

December 16, 2010 20:22

Updated 3:02 p.m. Outgoing House General Counsel Irv Nathan was nominated today as the next attorney general for the District of Columbia, Mayor-elect Vince Gray announced. Gray wrote on his Web site today that “Nathan will join me in taking...

House General Counsel Is Moving On

December 15, 2010 21:01

Irvin Nathan, who led the U.S. House of Representatives' fight to compel testimony from then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers, is planning to resign his job as House general counsel. Nathan said in a brief phone interview today that he plans...

Dechert Adds Antitrust Partner From Howrey

December 14, 2010 19:23

Michael Cowie, who was until recently a partner in Howrey’s antitrust practice, has joined Dechert’s Washington office as a partner. Cowie is a former director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition—a position in which he supervised a 25-attorney...

Former Akin Gump Partner Gets New Senate Job

December 14, 2010 16:35

Martina Bradford, a Senate aide and former partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, has been appointed to help run the U.S. Senate's day-to-day operations and security. Bradford will be the new deputy Senate sergeant-at-arms, Senate Majority Leader Harry...

DOJ's National Security Division Wants Appellate Chief

December 10, 2010 18:51

For the first time since its inception, the U.S. Justice Department's National Security Division is looking to hire an appellate chief to oversee a national docket that includes terrorism cases. Lawyers in the division’s Office of Law and Policy have...