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Firms Seek 'Shiniest New Penny' as Revolving Door Spins for Obama Lawyers
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's hiring of Stuart Delery in September was a recruitment coup for the firm and marked one of Washington's most worn, and criticized, paths: the route through the revolving door between federal service and private practice.
Stuart DeleryDelery, one of then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.'s first front-office picks, rose to third-in-command at the U.S. Justice Department as acting associate attorney general. He joined Main Justice from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, one of a group of lawyers there who jumped into the Obama administration during its early days.
“A change of administration offers a great opportunity for law firms like ours, where we want to have the shiniest new penny,” says F. Joseph Warin, who helped recruit Delery and who co-chairs Gibson Dunn's white-collar defense and investigations practice group. “We want people who have been in the room where key decisions are made, so we can offer our clients these perspectives and that level of advocacy.”
As the Obama administration winds down, dozens of other top government lawyers—including many from the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—are being courted
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