King & Spalding has landed former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to be a partner in the firm’s government investigations team, after a rocky tenure as the Justice Department’s second-in-command.
Rosenstein, perhaps best-known for appointing former FBI director Robert Mueller to investigate the ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, will work in Washington.
Rosenstein’s tenure at the Justice Department won him praise and scorn at different times from both the political left and right, as he oversaw the Mueller probe, and later, in siding with Attorney General William Barr in deciding not to pursue obstruction charges against ...
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