Former Attorney General Sally Yates joins King & Spalding
Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates has signed on with King & Spalding — rejoining the law firm where she began her career before her 27-year tenure in the Justice Department, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Mark Meltzer writes that Yates will be a partner in the firm’s Special Matters team and will head an independent investigations group that includes several other former government enforcement lawyers – including five former U.S. attorneys. She’ll be based in Washington and Atlanta.
Soon after he took office, President Trump fired Yates, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta as acting attorney general after she declined to enforce Trump’s proposed travel ban. Yates told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees.
Read the Business Journal article.
