Paul McNulty (Lawyer)

Paul McNulty

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

Life

After attending Baldwin High School in Whitehall , he studied at Grove City College between 1976 and 1990 , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts . He then completed a law degree at the Law School of Capital University in 1983 with a Juris Doctor .

Subsequently, after his legal admission in the state of Pennsylvania, he was first legal advisor to the ethics committee in the US House of Representatives ( House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct ) from 1983 to 1985 and then from 1985 to 1987 director for legal services of the Legal Services Corporation . In 1987 he returned to the US House of Representatives and served in that position as legal advisor to the Republican Minority Group on the Criminal Law Subcommittee. After that, McNulty was employed in the US Department of Justice in 1990 , where he was political director and department spokesman until 1993.

With the end of US President George Bush's tenure , he resigned from government service in 1993 and became an advisor to the law firm Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge . In 1995 he was re-staff in the US House of Representatives and first as chief legal advisor to the Subcommittee on Crime, and then until 1998, a spokesman for the Judiciary Committee ( House Committee on the Judiciary ). He then served from 1999 to 2001 as chief legal advisor and director of legislative operations to Dick Armey , longtime Congressman for Texas and then leader of the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives.

After a brief stint as US Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General in the US Department of Justice in 2001, he was the successor to Kenneth E. Melson and was a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia from 2001 to 2005 . McNulty then served as acting incumbent since November 2005 and then between March 2006 and May 2007 as US Deputy Attorney General, Deputy Secretary of Justice in the administration of President George W. Bush . In May 2007, he resigned from this position, in which he stated in a press release that this step had nothing to do with the previous dismissal of nine US attorneys in December 2006.

Since July 2007 he has been a partner of Baker & McKenzie , one of the leading international law firms in the field of commercial law , one of the largest law firms in the world.

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SURNAME	McNulty, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	McNulty, Paul J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania

[1] THE WASHINGTON POST: Justice Dept.'s No. 2 to resign. McNulty Is 4th to Quit Since Disputed Firings (May 15, 2007)

[2] PR NEWSWIRE: Paul J. McNulty Joins International Law Firm Baker & McKenzie LLP (July 30, 2007)