Government & Law Former Bush administration member to speak at UNC School of Law Feb. 21
| Former Bush administration member to speak at UNC School of Law Feb. 21 |
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| Monday, February 11, 2008 | |
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James Comey, a former deputy attorney general and current chief counsel to Lockheed Martin, will deliver a speech at an event sponsored by the Center on Law and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law. The event is free and open to the public, and will occur Feb. 21 at noon in the UNC School of Law’s Rotunda. “He has distinguished himself as a prosecutor and leading Justice Department official in the critical months and years after the devastating terrorist attacks against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001,” said Michael Gerhardt, the center’s director and Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law. “He has some extraordinary insights into the challenges faced by the Justice Department and particularly to prosecutors post-9/11.” The purpose of the Center on Law and Government is to enrich School of Law students’ and the greater community’s understanding of the important contributions lawyers may make in government and the public sector, Gerhardt said. Comey joined Lockheed Martin in 2006 from the U.S. Department of Justice, where he had served as deputy attorney general since December 2003. In this position, he oversaw many important government cases, including terrorism and securities fraud prosecutions. Previously, he served as U.S. attorney for the Southern district of New York, where he had earlier been an assistant U.S. attorney and lead prosecutor in the highly publicized United States v. John Gambino racketeering and murder trial. From 1996 through 2001, he was managing assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the Richmond division of the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern district of Virginia. In that position, he handled the Khobar Towers terrorist bombing case, arising out of the June 1996 attack on a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia in which 19 U.S. Air Force members were killed and hundreds wounded. Comey has also worked in commercial litigation, having been a partner with the law firm of McGuireWoods, LLP. He is a 1982 graduate of the College of William & Mary and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985. School of Law contact: Matt Marvin, (919) 962-4125, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |