Former federal prosecutor Damali Taylor has returned to O'Melveny & Myers as a partner in the firm's white-collar defense and corporate investigations practice.

Taylor, who was previously been a counsel at O'Melveny & Myers until moving into the public sector, will be based in the firm's San Francisco office. She left private practice in 2009 to join the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, where she spent almost two years.

In 2011, Taylor moved to the U.S. attorney's office of the Northern District of California, where she most recently supervised a team of more than a dozen lawyers as deputy chief of the organized crime strike force. She prosecuted murders, sex trafficking and racketeering cases, including a still pending matter in which 33 defendants have been charged with plotting to sell $150 million in illegally obtained pharmaceuticals.