Big Law Alum Nixes Charlottesville ‘Craziness’ After Taking Job

A former Big Law lawyer has rejected the interim city manager job in Charlottesville, Va., less than a month after accepting the role in a city struggling with affordable housing, government turnover, and the aftermath of a White supremacist rally.

“There’s just no way that an interim person can work underneath that craziness,” said Marc Woolley, who has previously worked at law firms Ballard Spahr and Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr.

Woolley instead started Dec. 6 as deputy executive director of Delaware County, Pa., just outside Philadelphia, which is in the process of returning its privately-run prison system to public ...