Obama EEOC General Counsel Lopez Tapped as Rutgers Law Dean

David Lopez, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s chief prosecutor for most of the Obama administration, has been selected as the next dean of Rutgers University Law School, sources with knowledge of the appointment tell Bloomberg Law.

Rutgers Law School confirmed to Bloomberg Law that Lopez’s appointment as a co-dean is now pending the approval of the school’s board of governors. He is expected to begin leading the Newark, N.J. law campus in August, and will collaborate with the dean of Rutgers’ Camden, N.J. campus, the school said in a statement.

Lopez has been a partner at prominent plaintiff firm Outten ...