Former assistant U.S. Attorney Michael W. Emmick has joined the downtown Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as special counsel. The firm announced last week that Emmick will be working in the firm’s Government Contracts and Regulated Industries, and White Collar and Civil Fraud Defense practice groups.
Emmick served as an assistant U.S. attorney for 25 years in Los Angeles, where he handled over 35 criminal trials, chiefly in the white collar arena, spent eight years as chief of the 30-attorney Public Corruption and Government Fraud Section, and seven years as special counsel to the U.S. attorney. From 1997 to 2000, he was detailed to the Office of Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C., where he worked on the investigation of then-President Bill Clinton regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal, first as associate independent counsel and then as deputy independent counsel.
Emmick was also a member of the trial team that received DOJ’s second highest award, the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, for the 2006 prosecution of the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. He received a B.A. in 1974 from UC Santa Barbara, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude. He then attended UCLA Law School where he was comment editor on Law Review and did an extern-clerkship with then-California Supreme Court Justice Frank Richardson, since deceased.
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