The author was U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. from 2001 to 2004. He is currently a partner at the firm, Barnes & Thornburg LLP. By Roscoe C. Howard Jr. When I was growing up in ‘50’s and early 60’s, I visited my Mother’s home town in the Northern Neck of Virginia, and sat around while…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Barnes & Thornburg, based in Indianapolis, is the first major law firm to have three former U. S. Attorneys as partners who are African American. The firm has 13 offices and is among the 100 largest in the U.S. The former U.S. Attorneys include Mike Battle, who served in the Western District…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News When he announced the charges in late 2008, Chicago’s U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, came at Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with all the bravado of Eliot Ness going after Al Capone in the movie “The Untouchables.” He told a throng of reporters that Blagojevich had embarked on a “corruption crime…
