Former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced this afternoon that he will join the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner.
The retired federal judge from New York will handle corporate investigations for the firm.
Mukasey left his post as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer last month after spending more than a year in Washington. Bipartisan groups of lawmakers praised him for helping to improve morale at a department that had been demoralized by hiring scandals under his predecessor, Alberto R. Gonzales.
As a federal judge, Mukasey developed expertise in terrorism, overseeing the trial of Omar Abdel Rahman, also known as the Blind Sheik.
Mukasey said that the looks forward to working with lawyers at Debevoise, where he expects to work on behalf of corporate boards and oversee companies that have run afoul of the law as an independent monitor.
Posted by Erik Even
on February 17, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Legal News.
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Michael Kennedy
February 19, 2009 at 6:39 am
“…oversee companies that have run afoul of the law as an independent monitor.”
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Like companies who sponsor torture? Oh, yeah, I forgot: he doesn’t care about that! What kind of “afoul” would animate him then?