The solicitor general of the United States is the fourth-highest ranking official within the United States Department of Justice who represents the federal government in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Elizabeth Prelogar has been serving in the role since October 28,2021.
Skadden,Arps,Slate,Meagher &Flom LLP and Affiliates is an American multinational law firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1948,the firm consistently ranks among the top U.S. law firms by revenue. The company is known for its work on company mergers and takeovers.
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties:New York (Manhattan),Bronx,Westchester,Putnam,Rockland,Orange,Dutchess and Sullivan. Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789,the office represents the United States government in criminal and civil cases across the country. The SDNY handles a broad array of cases,including but not limited to those involving white collar crime,domestic terrorism,cybercrime,public corruption,organized crime,as well as civil rights disputes.
Kirkland &Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago,Illinois. Founded in 1909,Kirkland &Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys,and was the first law firm in the world to reach US$4 billion in revenue. As of 2021,Kirkland &Ellis ranks third on Am Law's list of profits per equity partner. While Kirkland &Ellis was historically considered a firm focused on litigation,during the 2010s,it expanded private equity and restructuring practices which,together with large-scale commercial litigation,comprise the core legal service areas of the firm.
Bracewell LLP is an international law firm based in Houston,Texas,that began in 1945. The firm has approximately 350 lawyers,and has United States offices in New York City,Washington,D.C.,Hartford,San Antonio,Seattle,Dallas and Austin,as well as offices in Dubai,and London.
Winston &Strawn LLP is an international law firm. Headquartered in Chicago,it has nearly 800 attorneys in ten offices in the United States and six offices in Europe and Asia. Founded in 1853,it is one of the largest and oldest law firms in Chicago.
John Henry Durham is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 2018 to 2021. By April 2019,he had been assigned to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections,and in October 2020 he was appointed special counsel for the Department of Justice on that matter.
Mark J. Lesko is an American politician and attorney who served as the acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division at the United States Justice Department. Prior to that,from January 20,2021,he was named as acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In addition to his career as a prosecutor in the United States Department of Justice,Lesko served as town supervisor of Brookhaven,New York.
The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in five New York counties:Kings (Brooklyn),Queens,Richmond,Nassau and Suffolk. The current U.S. Attorney is Breon Peace,who took over in October 2021.
Steven Andrew Engel is an American lawyer. He served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Donald Trump administration. Engel,who previously worked in the George W. Bush administration as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel,was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31,2017,and confirmed on November 7,2017. On January 20,2021,he was succeeded by Christopher H. Schroeder,serving under the Biden Administration.
Jeffrey Adam Rosen is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021 and as the United States deputy attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Department of Justice,he was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis and was the United States deputy secretary of transportation.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark is an American lawyer who was Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021. In September 2020,he was also appointed acting head of the Civil Division. In 2020 and 2021,Clark helped then-president Donald Trump attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election. Clark's actions in that endeavor were reviewed by the District of Columbia Bar Association –the entity authorized by law to pursue attorney discipline and disbarment in the District of Columbia –which recommended discipline to the DC Court of Appeals in July 2022.
Jeffrey Jensen is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri from 2017 to 2020.
Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020.
Matthew J. Schneider is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2018 to 2021. In 2021,he joined the law firm Honigman LLP as a partner.
Associate deputy attorney general is a position in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in United States Department of Justice. The number of positions varies widely depending on the staffing discretion of the deputy attorney general,but in 2017,there were five such positions,all of whom served as advisors to the deputy attorney general. There is also a separate principal associate deputy attorney general,who is the principal advisor to the deputy attorney general,and to whom all associate deputy attorneys general report. The associate deputy attorney general positions are filled by Senior Executive Service (SES) career attorneys,by SES political appointees,or by non-SES career attorneys serving on detail assignments from elsewhere in the department.
Craig Carpenito is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. On January 5,2018,Carpenito was appointed U.S. Attorney pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §546 by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. On April 27,2018,the judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey unanimously appointed Carpenito U.S. Attorney pursuant to their statutory powers. He resigned on January 5,2021. He previously served as a federal prosecutor in the office from 2003 to 2008.
Claire McCusker Murray is an American lawyer who served as associate White House counsel and acting associate attorney general in the United States Department of Justice during the Presidency of Donald Trump. She served in this position from May 14,2019 until Joe Biden assumed the presidency on January 20,2021. She is a member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Audrey Strauss is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from June 20,2020,to October 10,2021. Previously the deputy U.S. Attorney,Strauss became the acting U.S. Attorney after the previous U.S. attorney,Geoffrey Berman,was fired by President Donald Trump at the request of Attorney General William Barr. On December 22,2020,the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,effective January 16,2021,and pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d),unanimously appointed Strauss as U.S. Attorney for an indeterminate term.
Richard Donoghue is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as the acting United States deputy attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021. Previously,he served as the principal associate deputy attorney general in 2020 and as United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. Donoghue was appointed interim U.S. Attorney by Jeff Sessions in January 2018.
