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Notable names for number two at DOJ

By Douglas A. Berman

Now available at law.com is this article from Legal Times discussing the names making the rounds for the second spot at the Justice Department in the Obama Administration.  Here are snippets from the article: With congressional pressure mounting, the short list for the Department of Justice's No. 2. position appears to be getting shorter all the time. President-elect Barack Obama's transition staff has declined to discuss potential Justice nominees, or even reveal who on the transition team is mustering names. But Washington lawyers have been speculating for weeks that Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's David Ogden, who is heading the Justice Department transition team, is the likely pick for deputy attorney general. One Washington lawyer close to the transition says his nomination is all but assured...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).