Blank Rome Adds Ex-Prosecutor and Former Deputy Chief at U.S. Attorney’s Office
Paul H. Tzur, former deputy chief of the Narcotics and Money Laundering Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, has joined Blank Rome LLP’s Chicago office as a partner in the White Collar Defense & Investigations group.
The firm said Tzur has more than four years of corporate litigation experience in the private sector and nearly nine years as a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office—including more than two in the office’s Securities & Commodities Section—and will focus his practice on high-stakes white collar defense and complex commercial litigation matters.
During his tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tzur worked on cases such United States v. Gary Winemaster, Craig Davis and James Needham; United States v. Matthew Brunstrum; United States of America v. Chunlai Yang; and United States of America v. Carol Delgado and Brent Houck, among others.
Tzur earned his J.D., cum laude, from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and his B.S. in Engineering, cum laude, from the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Following law school, Paul clerked for the Honorable Steven M. Colloton at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and then worked as a litigation attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
