Paul McNulty

Paul J. McNulty ( born January 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American jurist who temporarily Deputy U.S. Attorney General was.

Life

After visiting the Baldwin High School in Whitehall, he studied 1976-1990 at Grove City College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts. A subsequent study of law at the Law School Capital University, he finished in 1983 with a Juris Doctor.

Subsequently, he was after his legal approval in the state of Pennsylvania first 1983-1985 Legal Adviser of the Ethics Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives ( House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct ) and then between 1985 and 1987 Director of Legal Services of the Legal Services Corporation. In 1987 he returned to the U.S. Repräsentenhaus and was in this legal adviser to the Republican minority faction in the Subcommittee on Crime. Then McNulty 1990 employees in the U.S. Justice Department and was there until 1993 Political Director and spokesperson for the ministry.

With the end of the term of U.S. President George Bush, he retired in 1993 in the government service and became an adviser to the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. In 1995 he was again in the U.S. House of Representatives staff and first as chief legal counsel of the Subcommittee on Criminal Law and then to 1998 as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee ( House Committee on the Judiciary ). Subsequently, he was between 1999 and 2001 Chief Legal Counsel and Director for Legislativoperationen by Dick Armey, the longtime congressman for Texas and former leader of the Republican majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives.

After a short stint as U.S. Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Justice Department in 2001, he was from 2001 to 2005 federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia. After that McNulty was first since November 2005 Acting incumbent and then between March 2006 and May 2007 Deputy as U.S. Deputy Attorney General Attorney General of the administration of President George W. Bush. In May 2007 he resigned from this office, which he announced in a press statement that the move had nothing to do with the previous dismissal of nine U.S. Attorneys in December 2006.

Since July 2007 he has been a partner at Baker & McKenzie, one of the leading international law firms in the area of business law, which is one of the largest law firms in the world.