First name: Jennifer
Surname: Taylor
Practice area: White collar crime
Firm/company (from): Department of Justice
Firm/company (to): McDermott Will & Emery
City (from): Washington DC
City (to): Washington DC
Country (from): USA
Country (to): USA
Region: North America
McDermott Will & Emery has bolstered its white-collar defense practice by recruiting an experienced lawyer from the fraud division of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Jennifer Taylor, who served as a trial attorney at the DOJ from 2006 through to this month, is now a partner in McDermott’s Washington DC, office.
With the implementation of the Dodd-Frank laws over the next few years, Taylor sees expanded opportunities for lawyers who have experience in the public sector to step in and help people and organisations in the derivatives space with compliance issues.
“There will be more regulation, [hence] more compliance work with various companies,” Taylor said.
Recent days have seen a flurry of announcements about lawyers crossing over from government to private practice. Alston & Bird announced on Feb. 10 that has added a former Deputy Associate Attorney General to its Atlanta, Raleigh, and Washington DC offices. Karol Mason, who left the firm in 2009 to work at the DOJ, is qualified for her new role at Alston & Bird not just by virtue of her government service, but also her tenure as chair of the audit and finance committees at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill.
In addition Christopher Garcia recently left the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan, where he was chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, to become a litigation partner at Weil Gotshal and Manges (February 14).
Federal judge Richard Holwell also returned to private practice as co-founder of law firm Holwell Shuster and Goldberg, announced on February 7. Holwell is known for his role in prosecuting Raj Rajaratnam, manager of the hedge fund Galleon Group, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison last October.