Munger Tolles Plucks Elaine Goldenberg From DOJ

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced Nov. 6 that it hired Department of Justice attorney Elaine J. Goldenberg, continuing its hiring streak and firming up its place as a U.S. Supreme Court powerhouse.

Goldenberg argued 12 cases in the Supreme Court during her tenure as assistant to the Solicitor General and “has extensive experience in securities law, foreign-state immunity, constitutional law and extraterritoriality questions,” the firm’s press release said.

She argued for the government in Kokesh v. Securities and Exchange Commission, and she wrote the government’s brief in Salman v. United States, a case about the standard for insider-trading liability. ...