T. Markus Funk, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern District of Illinois, starts his career in private practice this week at Perkins Coie in Denver, Law Week Colorado reported.

Funk served in the Public Corruption and Organized Crime Section of the Chicago-based office for 10 years. From 2004  to 2006, he also served as the Department of Justice Resident Legal Advisor for Kosovo. (Read more about him in this Chicago Sun-Times profile from July.)

Funk will work in the firm’s Investigations and White Collar Defense Practice.