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Former assistant U.S. attorney joins WilmerHale in Los Angeles

By Richard Binder

WilmerHale announced today that Brian R. Michael, a former Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles and New York, has joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as counsel in the Business Trial, Securities Litigation and Enforcement, and Investigations and Criminal Litigation Groups.

From 2003 to 2010, Michael served as an Assistant US Attorney, most recently in the US Attorney?s Office for the Central District of California and before that in the US Attorney?s Office for the Southern District of New York. As an Assistant US Attorney, Michael tried cases and led investigations in complex cases involving securities and financial fraud, mail and wire fraud, organized crime, racketeering, money laundering, cybercrime and public corruption. In Los Angeles, Michael served in the Violent & Organized Crime Section both as Anti-Gang Coordinator, where he oversaw the coordination of federal anti-gang efforts with law enforcement agencies, government entities and community groups nationwide, and as the Violence Against Women Coordinator, where he led several high-profile celebrity stalking and extortion cases.

From 2000 to 2003, Michael was a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York. He also previously served as Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in the US Department of Justice.

Michael received his JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review, and his BA from the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with distinction. Following law school, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt, former Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).