Special prosecutor Dan Webb, center, talks to reporters Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, after a jury found actor Jussie Smollett guilty on five of six charges he staged a racist, anti-gay attack on himself and then lied to Chicago police about it. Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
It’s hardly a traditional pro bono assignment.
For nearly two-and-a-half years, Dan Webb, the co-executive chairman of Winston & Strawn, has served as the special prosecutor in the case of Jussie Smollett, the actor charged with staging a hate-crime assault in downtown Chicago in January 2019 and lying to investigators about it.
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