Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates has joined King & Spalding as a partner, where she will head up an independent investigations team.
Yates is returning to the the law firm—and the practice—where she cut her teeth as a young attorney, before spending 27 years in the Department of Justice. As an associate, Yates worked with former Attorney General Griffin Bell on an investigation into the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
In her new role, Yates will lead independent investigations into corporations. Former Attorney General Eric Holder has a similar position. In that role he has tackled several cases, including ...