DOJ's Rod Rosenstein, Job Searching Since September, Lands at King & Spalding
The career Justice Department official, whose role overseeing the Mueller investigation made him a household name in both law and politics, is the latest big name to join King & Spalding from the DOJ.
January 08, 2020 at 09:44 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is joining King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., as an equity partner, marking the latest addition of former top Justice Department brass at the firm.
Rosenstein spent nearly two decades in senior positions at the Justice Department spanning the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. But his time in the Trump administration overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation makes him one of the most well-known DOJ lawyers and a prized recruit for any major law firm. He left the Justice Department last May and said in an interview Wednesday that he's been job searching since September.
"I actually got in touch with the firm through Bob Ehrlich," a former governor of Maryland who is senior counsel at King & Spalding, Rosenstein said. He said he had "informal discussions" with other firms but settled on King & Spalding shortly after Ehrlich put him in touch with Wick Sollers, who chairs the firm's government matters practice. "It's a product of both a long history of federal interactions with former firm attorneys … and more recently Bob putting me in touch with Wick."
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