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Mark Robbins, acting chairman of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, has been appointed to concurrently serve as general counsel of the Office of Personnel Management, the OPM said Friday.

James Byrne, formerly associate general counsel and chief privacy officer at Lockheed Martin, has been confirmed by the Senate as general counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Byrne immediately resigned from his posts at the company following his appointment to the VA role, Lockheed said Friday. The White House announced …

Ryan Dean Newman, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department‘s legal policy office, will be nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as general counsel at the Department of the Army, the White House announced Monday. He previously served in the U.S. Army as a captain and received a Bronze …

Stephen Preston, general counsel and chief legal officer of the Defense Department, will leave the public sector by the end of June after serving six years under the current administration. DoD said Wednesday Preston will rejoin the private sector and teach at Yale Law School as an adjunct professor. “Over the past six years, …

Sumara Thompson-King, NASA deputy general counsel, has been appointed to the top post at the agency’s Office of the General Counsel at NASA headquarters, succeeding 10-year general counsel Michael Wholley. Thompson-King, a 28-year veteran at the agency, oversees and provides legal advice and assistance to senior management, NASA said Monday. She was previously associate …

Steven Croley, deputy White House counsel, has been confirmed by the Senate as general counsel for the Energy Department and will oversee a team responsible for ensuring the agency’s operations are compliant with the law. “Dr. Croley brings to the department leadership team both extensive experience representing the interests of the …

Stephen Preston, general counsel at the CIA since 2009, has been appointed to the same position at the Defense Department. Preston served as a partner at WilmerHale prior to joining the CIA and held the co-chairman role for the firm’s defense and national security practice, the White House said June …

The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Geoffrey Aronow general counsel, where he will serve as the agency’s chief legal officer and advise the commission on enforcement actions, rulemaking and federal court cases. The SEC said Aronow, a partner in the Washington office of law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP since September …

Jeh Johnson, general counsel at the Defense Department since 2009, is stepping down from his post at the end of the year to return to private practice, the Washington Post reports. Emily Heil writes Johnson is expected to return to Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a law firm where …