Mark Filip

Mark Filip ( born June 1, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American lawyer, prosecutor and judge, who is also Deputy U.S. Attorney General was at times.

Life

After visiting the Maine South High School in Park Ridge, he studied economics and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign ( UIUC ) in 1988 and earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics and History ). A subsequent study of law at Oxford University he graduated in 1990 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) from. He then continued his law studies at the Law School of Harvard University is continuing and received there in 1992 a Juris Doctor (JD). During his studies there, he joined not only the academic Phi Kappa Psi connection, but was also on the editorial staff of the Harvard Law Review.

After graduating, he was first secretary ( Law Clerk ) by Judge Stephen F. Williams and then by Antonin Scalia, who is since 1986 a judge at the Supreme Court of the United States. After he was first deputy from 1995 to 1999, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, based in Chicago, before he was between 1999 and 2004 Partner of Skadden, Arps, a law firm with 1800 lawyers and now based in New York City.

Subsequently, Judge Filip was to the Commissioner for the Northern District of Illinois U.S. District Court, where he worked as a successor to the exchanged senior status in the Harry Daniel weavers from February 2004 to March 2008.

On 10 March 2008 he was appointed deputy as U.S. Deputy Attorney General Minister of Justice in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and remained in this position until 2009. Recently, he was after the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president in this capacity from 20 January. duties until Eric Holder on 3 March 2009 Acting Minister of Justice ( Acting U.S. Attorney General ).

After his retirement from government service Filip partner of Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm with more than 1,500 attorneys and nine offices worldwide, was one of the largest corporate law firms.