Brad Garcia, a veteran appellate lawyer and a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, on Friday left law firm O'Melveny & Myers for a key position in the U.S. Justice Department's office of legal counsel.
Garcia was appointed as a deputy assistant attorney general under the leadership of Christopher Schroeder, the U.S. Senate-confirmed head of the legal counsel's office. Schroeder, who formerly taught at Duke University School of Law, previously was of counsel at O'Melveny.
Garcia was part of the firm's appellate and Supreme Court practice in Washington, D.C. Butwin said Garcia had argued more than a dozen appeals in federal and state courts and one case at the Supreme Court. Garcia clerked for Kagan during the 2012-2013 term.Former O'Melveny partner Lisa Monaco, who co-led the firm's data security and privacy team, is