Mark Filip, the deputy attorney general from March 2008 to January 2009, was hired by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and will split his time between its Chicago and D.C. offices, The Wall Street Journal reported this afternoon.
Filip, who also briefly served as acting attorney general this year, will work on “government-enforcement cases, internal investigations and corporate-governance issues” at his new firm, the WSJ said.
We previously reported that Filip was against a draft of a still-unreleased Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility report that is critical of the legal opinions that sanctioned brutal interrogations. As the second highest appointee at the Justice Department, he was responsible for the day-to-day management of Main Justice.
