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New addition at Century City Reed Smith office

By Richard Binder

Reed Smith announced the addition of James L. Sanders as a partner in the Global Regulatory and Enforcement Group of its Litigation Department. Mr. Sanders is resident in the firm?s Century City office, where his practice focuses on securities litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and the representation of corporations and individuals in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other governmental entities.

Mr. Sanders was formerly a partner and head of the Los Angeles Trial Department at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where his clients included highly compensated executives and corporations.

Mr. Sanders began his legal career at the SEC in Chicago, where he served as an attorney and branch chief from 1974 to1980. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1980 to 1989, first in the Northern District of Illinois, then in the Central District of California. As a prosecutor, Mr. Sanders was involved in more than 40 federal criminal trials, including trials for market manipulation, insider trading, RICO offenses, and bribery of public officials. In 1989, he re-joined the SEC, serving as its Regional Administrator in Los Angeles until 1991, when he returned to private practice.

Mr. Sanders earned his J.D. from the University of Tulsa Law School in 1973, and his B.S. in Finance from Drake University in 1970.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).