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Government

Mar. 12, 2009

Senate Panel Considers West's Nomination for Assistant AG

Morrison & Foerster partner Tony West emphasized his experience as a federal prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing to become the assistant attorney general for the department's civil division.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - Morrison & Foerster partner Tony West emphasized his experience as a federal prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing to become the assistant attorney general for the department's civil division.

"I revere the institution that is the Department of Justice," West told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It was there that I learned to be a lawyer,...

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