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Peter Keisler Rejoins Sidley Austin LLP as Partner
March 18, 2008
Washington, D.C. – Former Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler will rejoin Sidley Austin LLP as a partner, the firm announced today. Keisler left Sidley in 2002, as a partner, to join the United States Department of Justice. He joined the Justice Department as Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, and subsequently served as Acting Associate Attorney General and as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. In September 2007, he was appointed by President Bush to serve as Acting Attorney General. Keisler will become a global coordinator of the firm’s appellate practice and be resident in the Washington, D.C. office.
Keisler has extensive experience as a litigator, having argued before the Supreme Court and numerous federal courts of appeals on a wide and diverse range of issues. Keisler spent most of his years at the Department of Justice as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, the Justice Department’s largest litigating division which consists of approximately 700 attorneys who represent the United States in federal and state courts throughout the country. While at the Justice Department, Keisler argued a number of significant appeals on behalf of the United States, involving issues of constitutional, statutory, regulatory and common law.
Keisler has also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That nomination has been pending before the Senate for confirmation since June 2006.
“Peter is one of the most accomplished, respected and admired lawyers in Washington today,” said Carter Phillips, managing partner of Sidley’s Washington, D.C. office. “We could not be more proud that he has chosen to rejoin us and focus his considerable talents on serving Sidley’s clients.”
“It has been a tremendous privilege to serve at the Department of Justice,” said Keisler. “I am thrilled to be returning to Sidley to work with colleagues I hold in the highest esteem.”
Keisler, who started his career at Sidley as an associate in 1989, received both his B.A.,
magna cum laude, and J.D. from Yale, where he was an officer of the
Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Judge Robert Bork on the D.C. Circuit and then served as Associate Counsel to President Reagan. Prior to joining Sidley, he also served as a law clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
"It is a pleasure to 'welcome home' a colleague after his years of public service,” said Tom Cole, Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee. “Peter is highly regarded and enormously well liked both inside and outside the firm."
One of the first law firms to have a dedicated appellate group, Sidley’s appellate practice is national in scope, consisting of more than 100 lawyers representing clients before the United States Supreme Court, state supreme courts, federal courts of appeals and other appellate forums. Sidley’s appellate practice has had an especially significant year. Five different lawyers from Sidley’s appellate team argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in calendar year 2007 and in the 2007-08 Term, Sidley’s team is involved with approximately 40 percent of the approximately 80 argued cases on the Supreme Court docket, representing either a party or an amicus.
Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's largest full-service law firms, with more than 1800 lawyers practicing in 16 U.S. and international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Every year since 2003, Sidley has been named to
Legal Business’ Global Elite, their designation for "the 15 finest law firms in the world." BTI, a Boston-based consulting and research firm, has named Sidley to their Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank in the Client Service Top 10 for seven years in a row.
For more information:
, Director of Practice Development, 212.839.8797
, Rubenstein Associates, 212.843.8007
For purposes of the New York State Bar rules, this press release may be considered Attorney Advertising and the headquarters of the firm are Sidley Austin LLP 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, 212.839.5300 and Sidley Austin LLP One South Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60603, 312.853.7000. Prior results described herein do not guarantee a similar outcome.