Zane D. Memeger (Morgan Lewis)

Zane D. Memeger (James Madison University, University of Virginia School of Law) is nominated to be U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He would replace Patrick L. Meehan, who resigned in July 2008 to run for Congress. The district’s current interim U.S. Attorney is Michael L. Levy.

Memeger’s vitals:

• Born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1964.
• Has been a partner in the litigation practice group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Philadelphia since October 2006. Was an associate in the group from September 1991 to April 1995.
• Was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from May 1995 to September 2006.
• Worked as a summer associate at Bayard, Handelman & Murdoch, Pennsylvania (now Bayard, PA) in Wilmington, Del., 1989.
• Was a paralegal at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C., from July 1986 to August 1988.
• Has tried 10 cases to verdict, serving as sole counsel in five cases and associate or co-counsel in the remaining five cases.

Click here for his full Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.

UPDATE: On his Office of Government Ethics questionnaire Memeger reported earning a $390,000 from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP for 2009 and the first few months of 2010.

On his Senate Judiciary financial disclosure Memeger reported assets valued at $851,200, mostly from his personal residence, and $396,400 in liabilities, mostly from a mortgage on the property, for a net worth of $454,800.

Zane D. Memeger (Morgan Lewis)

Zane D. Memeger, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, is expected to be nominated for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, while Charles M. Oberly III, a former state attorney general, is expected to be nominated for Delaware’s U.S. Attorney, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

The newspaper reports that Memeger was recommended by Pennsylvania Sens. Bob Casey and Arlen Specter, both Democrats, according to the sources with knowledge of the selection process. He will have to pass his FBI background check before President Obama sends his nomination to the Senate.

Memeger was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district for 11 years before leaving in 2006 to join Philadelphia-headquartered Morgan Lewis, where he is now a partner, The Inquirer reports. His practice focuses on corporate and white collar crime. While in the U.S. Attorney’s office, Memeger served on the organized crime strike force. He was on the team that successfully prosecuted mobster Joey Merlino and  Imam Shamsud-din Ali on racketeering charges, according to the Inquirer.

Charles M. Oberly III (Drinker Biddle)

The Eastern District office has been vacant since Pat Meehan resigned in July 2008 to explore a bid for the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. But he’s now running for the House seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Sestak (D), who is challenging party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary next year. The district’s current interim U.S. Attorney is Michael L. Levy.

Meanwhile, Oberly, who is now of counsel with the Wilmington office of the firm Drinker Biddle, is expected to be nominated within a month, according to the Inquirer’s sources. Oberly was the Delaware attorney general from 1983 to 1985. He had a failed bid for U.S. Senate in 1994.