K&L Gates LLP is an American multinational corporation law firm based in the United States,with international offices in Asia,Australia,Europe,the Middle East,and South America. Its namesake firms are Kirkpatrick &Lockhart,a Pittsburgh-based firm founded as Kirkpatrick,Pomeroy,Lockhart &Johnson in 1946,and Preston Gates &Ellis,a Seattle firm founded in 1883 whose prominent partners included William H. Gates Sr.,the attorney,philanthropist,and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Kirkpatrick &Lockhart merged with Preston Gates in 2007 to form K&L Gates,LLP.
Thomas John Perrelli is an American lawyer and the former United States Associate Attorney General. He served as Associate Attorney General during the administration of President Barack Obama. Perrelli also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States in the late 1990s.
The Gonzaga University School of Law is the professional school for the study of law at Gonzaga University. Established in 1912,the Jesuit-affiliated law school has been fully accredited by the American Bar Association since 1951,and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
Joseph Anthony Greenaway Jr. is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 2010 to 2023. He also previously sat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1996 to 2010. On February 9,2010,he was confirmed to his seat on the Third Circuit,filling the vacancy created by Justice Samuel Alito's elevation to the United States Supreme Court. Greenaway had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. He is currently a partner at the law firm Arnold &Porter.
Mark Robert Filip is an American lawyer specializing in class action and white collar criminal and regulatory defense. Formerly a partner at Skadden,Arps,he currently practices in the Washington,D.C. office of Kirkland and Ellis. From 2004 until 2008,Filip served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. As the George W. Bush administration ended,Filip served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States,and as the Barack Obama administration began he briefly served as acting attorney general.
Justin Lowe Quackenbush is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
Robert James McNichols was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
Rosanna Malouf Peterson is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington and a former professor at Gonzaga University School of Law. She is the first female judge to serve in the Eastern District.
Thomas E. Delahanty II was an American lawyer and former judge. He was the former United States Attorney for the District of Maine.
Michael Howard Simon is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Ronald C. Machen Jr. is the former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. In April 2015,he left the position and returned to the law firm WilmerHale after the longest tenure as US Attorney for the District of Columbia in more than 35 years.
Loretta Elizabeth Lynch is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under Presidents Bill Clinton (1999–2001),George W. Bush (2001) and Obama (2010–2015). As a U.S. attorney,Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn,Queens,Staten Island,and Long Island.
Thomas Owen Rice is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
Stephanie Dawn Thacker is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Terrence George Berg is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Donald Brockett was a Washington state attorney. He is the former Prosecuting Attorney of Spokane County,Washington. He is prominently known as the prosecuting attorney in the 1981 rape trial of Kevin Coe. After Coe was convicted of a series of rapes in Spokane's South Hill neighborhood,Spokane County Superior Court Judge George Shields sentenced him to a Life sentence,plus 75 years. Three months later,Coe's mother was arrested for attempting to solicit a "hit man" to murder Shields and make Brockett an "addlepated vegetable in diapers for the rest of his life". The rape case became the subject of Jack Olson's book,Son:A Psychopath and his Victims,which was later adapted into the 1991 film,Sins of the Mother. After his retirement,Brockett served as an attorney with the Spokane,Washington law firm of Phillabaum,Ledlin,Matthews &Sheldin,PLLC. As of 2015,Brockett is retired from law practice.
Edward Michael Connelly was a federal prosecutor and justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1946 to 1947. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Monrad Wallgren,and served less than one year. In 1946,he was defeated in the election,losing to King County Superior Court judge Matthew W. Hill. After leaving the court,Connelly returned to private practice in Spokane,Washington.
William C. Killian is an American attorney. He previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
William Douglas Hyslop was an American attorney who served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Washington from 2019 to 2021. He previously served in the position from 1991 to 1993.
