Former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins, ED Arkansas, has become a certified mediator and established a mediation practice in his firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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NAFUSA member Joe Whitley is co-chairing the 10th Annual Southeastern White Collar Crime Institute in Braselton, Georgia, September 4-6. Joe was U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Georgia under Ronald Reagan and later in the Northern District of Georgia under George H.W. Bush. He is currently a partner at Womble Bond Dickinson.
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Mike Hurst tapped to be Mississippi Republican Party Chairman
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves issued a statement May 8 announcing his support of
NAFUSA member Mike Hurst to replace retiring MS GOP Party Chairman Frank Bordeaux.
Hurst now needs the formal approval of the Mississippi State GOP Executive Committee.
Hurst served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi from 2017-2021after
being appointed by then President Trump. Following his tenure there, he joined the firm
Phelps Dunbar as a partner in the firm’s Jackson office.
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Former NAFUSA Board member, Greg Brower, has returned to practicing law with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a shareholder in the Litigation Department. He will be based in the firm’s Nevada and Washington, D.C. offices. Before returning to the firm, Greg served as Chief Global Compliance Officer at Wynn Resorts. Previously he served in high level positions with the FBI, including heading the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs and as a Deputy General Counsel. He served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada 2008-2009 under Presidents Bush and Obama.
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NAFUSA member Kenyen Brown joins Thompson Coburn, LLP
In January 2024, NAFUSA member Kenyen Brown joined Thompson Coburn as a
white-collar defense and investigations partner in their Washington, D.C. office.
He will focus on white-collar criminal litigation and compliance counseling.
Brown, who previously was with Hughes Hubbard in Washington D.C., served as
the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama from 2008 to
2017. He was the first African American to hold that office. While U.S. Attorney, he
served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and chaired the
LECC/Victim Witness subcommittee. Brown previously spent eight years on staff
for the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee.
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NAFUSA member Peter Vaira, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, posted the attached article in the Legal Intelligencer on January 9, 2024:
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Mike Dunavant Joins the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference
Leadership Team
NAFUSA member Mike Dunavant, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of
Tennessee, will serve as the new Deputy Executive Director of Legal Services and
Policy for the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC). In his
new position, he will oversee the Legislative, Legal Services, Training and Child
Support Divisions of the Conference and serve as liaison between Tennessee’s
elected District Attorneys General and the agencies and officials of the executive
and legislative branches.
Dunavant first joined TNDAGC, which is composed of the elected District
Attorneys General from Tennessee’s 32 judicial districts, in 2006 when he was
elected as the District Attorney General for the 25th Judicial District. He was
reelected in 2014 and served in that position until his 2017 appointment by then
President Trump as United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
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Timothy Shea Joins the EGC Firm
NAFUSA member Timothy J. Shea has joined the firm of Ellis George Cipollone in its Washington D.C. office. Shea served as the Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration from May 2020 until January 2021. Prior to that, he was appointed by Attorney General Barr to be Interim United States Attorney in the District of Columbia where he served from February 2020 to May 2020. He was an
Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia between 1992 and 1997 and also served as a senior counselor to AG Barr.
Shea’s practice at the EGC firm will focus on corporate and internal investigations, regulatory matters, and federal and state investigations. He is a graduate of Boston College and Georgetown University Law Center.
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Bradley has announced it is expanding into the Georgia market. The firm is opening an office in Atlanta with more than 20 lawyers. NAFUSA membership director Jack Selden and member Lee Bentley are partners at Bradley.
https://www.bradley.com/insights/news/2023/05/bradley-launches-atlanta-office
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NAFUSA member and past board member, Timothy Heaphy started a new position in February 2023 with Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP as Co-Chair of the Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement Practice. He is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice and is based in Willkie’s Washington, DC office.
Heaphy was the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia from 2009 to 2014. Most recently he served as the lead investigator for the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Committee ended its 18-month investigation in February. He was recently interviewed by the New York Times. Here is the link to the article (subscription may be required):
Heaphy received a BA and his JD from the University of Virginia.
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Former NAFUSA member William L. Harper died on November 8, 2022, at the age of 91. Mr. Harper was nominated and confirmed as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia during the Carter Administration and served from 1977 to 1981. Per his wishes there will be no funeral or memorial service. In keeping with NAFUSA tradition, a flag was flown over the Department of Justice in his honor.
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NAFUSA member Billy J. Williams, a partner at Best Best & Krieger, was selected as a 2022 recipient of a National Economic Security Alliance’s William H. Webster Profiles in Leadership Award, which recognizes those in public service who have demonstrated exceptional leadership. Williams served for 20 years with the Department of Justice and as U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon from 2015-2021, first as Acting U.S. Attorney and then nominated by President Trump in November 2017. He is a partner in BB&K’s Environmental and Natural Resources Group.
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NAFUSA member Craig Carpenito, former U.S. Attorney for the District of N.J., was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in September. Craig is a Government Matters partner at King & Spaulding.
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James Cissell. Federal Criminal Trials, 2021 Edition. LexisNexis/Matthew Bender (2020)
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John E. Clark on the founding of NAFUSA. THE FOUNDING OF NAFUSA: Why And How It Came To Be.
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W. J. Michael Cody on his representation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King at the Mountain Top: The Representation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, April 3-4, 1968.
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William Ruckleshaus Speech to NAFUSA
file:///C:/Users/Des%20RAfferty/Downloads/ruckelshausspeech10032009%20(1).pdf
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Ruchelshaus Speech to NAFUSA
https://www.nafusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ruckelshausspeech10032009-1.pdf