From left, Stephen Bell, Patrick Mincey and Christina Milnor. Courtesy photo White-Collar Boutique Launches in DC With Former SEC Official, Cranfill Sumner Partners
Former SEC official Christina Zaroulis Milnor will help launch a new boutique in D.C.
May 01, 2024 at 06:00 AM
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What You Need to Know
- NC-based Cranfill Sumner hired SEC veteran Christina Zaroulis Milnor to help launch an affiliate boutique group in D.C.
- The firm's white-collar partners Patrick Mincey and Stephen Bell will also be part of the affiliate boutique group.
- The boutique group will handle both white-collar defense and whistleblower work.
A North Carolina-founded law firm has launched a Washington, D.C., office affiliate, hiring a senior Securities and Exchange Commission official for the white-collar defense practice.
Cranfill Sumner on Wednesday said that Christina Zaroulis Milnor, a former assistant secretary of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will help launch a new affiliate boutique group, named Mincey Bell Milnor, based in Washington, D.C. Milnor will work alongside Cranfill Sumner white-collar defense partners Patrick Mincey and Stephen Bell, as well as an associate and of counsel lawyer, in the five-lawyer D.C. office.
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