In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,county prosecutor,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact scope of the office varies by state. Generally,the prosecutor is said to represent the people of the jurisdiction in the state's courts,typically in criminal matters,against defendants. With the exception of three states,district attorneys are elected,unlike similar roles in other common law jurisdictions.
Dennis Michael Fisher is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He also serves as the Distinguished Jurist in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. A former politician,Fisher has served as a state representative,state senator,and as Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002,losing to Ed Rendell.
Webster Lee "Webb" Hubbell is a former United States Associate Attorney General from 1993 to 1994 who as part of the Whitewater controversy pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of failing to disclose a conflict of interest,and was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Bruce Lee Castor Jr. is an American lawyer and retired Republican politician from Montgomery County,Pennsylvania. He was appointed as the first Solicitor General of Pennsylvania in March 2016,and also first deputy attorney general the following July. Castor became acting attorney general less than a month later. He led for the defense of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump along with American lawyer David Schoen.
Duane Morris LLP is a law firm headquartered in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1904 as Duane,Morris,Heckscher,&Roberts,and has offices in the United States,London,Singapore,Vietnam,Oman,Myanmar,Shanghai,and Taiwan. In addition to legal services,Duane Morris has independent affiliates in other disciplines.
Schnader Harrison Segal &Lewis LLP was a U.S. law firm based in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,and founded in Philadelphia in 1935 by former Pennsylvania Attorney General William A. Schnader,Bernard G. Segal,a former Deputy Attorney General serving under Schnader,and Francis A. Lewis. The firm was initially named Schnader &Lewis. Eventually,Segal was added as a name partner. The fourth name partner,Earl G. Harrison,joined the firm in 1948. When the firm announced its closure it had roughly 90 attorneys in six offices nationwide. On August 3,2023,the firm announced it would dissolve and permanently cease operations.
Statewide primary elections for various state offices were held in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on May 15,2007. Pennsylvania's general elections were then held statewide on November 6,2007.
Arlin Marvin Adams was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. As late as 2013 he served as counsel to Schnader Harrison Segal &Lewis LLP,and was listed as a NAFTA adjudicator.
Lawrence Edward Walsh was an American lawyer and judge who was United States Deputy Attorney General from 1957 to 1961 and a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was appointed Independent Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran–Contra affair during the Reagan Administration.
Leslie Anne Miller is a Pennsylvania attorney and philanthropist who served as General Counsel of Pennsylvania under Governor Ed Rendell.
Martin J. Silverstein is an American attorney and diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
Daniel M. Petrocelli is a partner at O’Melveny &Myers LLP and the Chair of the firm’s Trial Practice Committee. Petrocelli is known in part for his work in a 1997 wrongful death civil suit against O. J. Simpson,for representing Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling,and for his leading role in defeating the US Department of Justice’s attempt to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner.
F. Emmett Fitzpatrick Jr. was an American politician,attorney and professor. A noted criminal defense attorney,he served as the District Attorney of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,between 1974 and 1978.
Brian Alfred Sun is an American trial lawyer and partner of the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright in the Los Angeles office. His areas of practice are white collar criminal defense,LA-based entertainment litigation,and political sagas,and has been involved in high-profile criminal trials.
James Allen Main is a former associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was initially appointed on January 14,2011,by Governor Bob Riley and elected to a six-year term in November,2012. He did not seek reelection in 2018 and retired from the court in January 2019. Prior to his appointment,he served on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
Warren Neil Eggleston is an American lawyer who served as the White House Counsel under President Barack Obama. Eggleston was the fourth person to hold this post during the Obama administration.
Peter Franz Neronha is an American lawyer and politician from Jamestown,Rhode Island who currently serves as the attorney general of Rhode Island. He previously served as the United States attorney for the District of Rhode Island under President Barack Obama from September 16,2009 until March 10,2017,after which he ran successfully as a Democrat for the office of Attorney General of Rhode Island in the 2018 elections.
Steven Daniel Grimberg is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Mark Floyd Pomerantz is an American attorney. He is a member of the New York law firm Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison,generally referred to as Paul,Weiss. In February 2021,he left that firm to assist with the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into the finances of former president Donald Trump until his resignation from the case in February 2022.
John W. Herron is a retired American judge who served for 35 years on the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania's First Judicial District,located in Philadelphia. Herron was the trial division's administrative judge for three three-year terms. As administrative judge in 1999,he issued the order creating the Commerce Case Management Program,Pennsylvania's first specialized business court program. He was first elected in 1987,after having been one of the few judges in modern Pennsylvania history to be recommended for office based on a merit selection process.
