Congressional staffer and counter-terrorism expert John Sopko has left the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he was chief counsel for oversight & investigations since 2007, to join Akin Gump as a partner.
Sopko will concentrate on congressional and other federal investigations.
He was senior adviser to committee Chairman John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat. Previously, Sopko worked for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security as the Democratic general counsel & chief of investigations.
He served for 15 years as the deputy chief counsel to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP was founded in Dallas in 1945. The firm now numbers more than 900 attorneys and advisors in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Via The BLT.
Posted by Erik Even
on February 4, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Legal News.
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