Egardo Ramos (Day Pitney)
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is recommending a former and a current Department of Justice official for two seats on the federal district court in Manhattan.
Edgardo Ramos is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York. He is now a partner at Day Pitney LLP in the firm’s white collar defense and investigations and antitrust practices. In 2009, Connecticut’s two senators, Christopher Dodd (D) and Joseph Lieberman (I) recommended him as one of four candidates to be Connecticut U.S. Attorney, but the White House nominated New Haven lawyer David Fein, who was confirmed.
Katherine Forrest (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Schumer also recommended Katherine Forrest to fill a vacancy on the court. She is a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Before she joined the Justice Department in October, Forrest was at Cravath, Swaine & Moore for 20 years, where she focused on antitrust and intellectual property matters Forrest was on the team of Cravath lawyers that helped United Airlines win antitrust approval for its merger with Continental Airlines Inc.
Schumer is sending his recommendation of Ramos and Forrest to President Barack Obama for potential nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Schumer called the two “first-rate lawyers who have served at the highest levels of public and private practice,” the the Blog of Legal Times reported Wednesday.
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts says the district is in a “judicial emergency” because of seven vacancies. Obama has made other nominations for the court: J. Paul Oetken, a senior vice president an associate general counsel at Cablevision Systems Corp., and Vincent Briccetti of Briccetti, Calhoun & Lawrence in White Plains, N.Y.
