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Peter Keisler is
a well-respected attorney and senior official in the Department
of Justice who possesses extensive trial and appellate litigation
experience in a broad range of issues. Mr. Keisler has argued before
the Supreme Court and numerous federal courts of appeal.
- Mr. Keisler has been nominated
to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit, which hears appeals from the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia and reviews numerous decisions made by
federal administrative agencies.
Mr. Keisler has a
distinguished record as a practicing attorney in the public and
private sectors.
- In 2003, Mr. Keisler was confirmed
as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the Department
of Justice. Since then he has been responsible for the work of
the Justice Department’s largest litigating division, consisting
of approximately 700 attorneys who represent the United States
in federal and state courts throughout the country. In this capacity,
Mr. Keisler has personally argued numerous cases in federal courts
on behalf of the United States.
- The cases handled by the Civil
Division involve issues of constitutional, statutory, regulatory,
and common law, including matters of tort law, contract law, bankruptcy,
intellectual property, immigration, foreign law, civil fraud enforcement
and civil and criminal enforcement of consumer protection laws.
From 2002 to 2003,
Mr. Keisler served at the Department of Justice as Principal Deputy
Associate Attorney General, and for six months during that period
as Acting Associate Attorney General, the third-ranking position
in the Department.
- In that capacity, Mr. Keisler
assisted in managing the Department’s civil litigating components
(Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment and Natural Resources,
and Tax), as well as assisting in the development and implementation
of a wide variety of civil justice initiatives and policies.
From 1989 until 2002,
Mr. Keisler was first an associate (1989-1993), and then a partner
(1993-2002), at the Washington D.C. office of Sidley Austin Brown
& Wood. While in private practice he successfully argued cases
at every level of the federal court system, including the U.S. Supreme
Court. His area of specialty included regulatory appeals before
the D.C. Circuit, the court to which he is nominated, where he argued
numerous times.
- From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Keisler
served as an Assistant Counsel and later Associate Counsel in
the Office of the Counsel to the President in the White House.
Mr. Keisler has impeccable
academic credentials and professional training.
- Mr. Keisler served as a law
clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme
Court and to Judge Robert Bork of the United States Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit.
- He received his J.D. from Yale
Law School in 1985, where he was an officer of the Yale Law
Journal.
- He attended Yale College and
graduated magna cum laude in 1981 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Mr. Keisler has used
his legal skills to assist clients on a pro bono and reduced fee
basis.
- While in private practice, Mr.
Keisler successfully represented Dr. Elhadi Omer Abd Elhalim,
who helped expose the mistreatment of political prisoners at a
Sudanese prison, in seeking political asylum in the United States.
Additional Biographical Information:
Department
of Justice Bio
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070109-6.html
“Bush
Picks Official at Justice for D.C. Circuit,” Washington
Post, June 30, 2006
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