Obama Taps Venable Partner For Federal Bench Seat

Yesterday Venable partner Robert Wilkins was given the tap by the Obama administration for a spot on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, writes the Legal Times Blog.

Prior to his move to Venable in 2002, Wilkins, per the BLT, was chief of the Public Defender Service’s special litigation section from 1996 to 2000.   Currently, he is a trial and appellate lawyer in the firm’s corporate defense/white collar, technology and commercial litigation practice groups.

Venable LLP is a law firm, formerly known as Venable, Baetjer & Howard LLP. It was founded in Baltimore in the post-Civil War period. Today the firm maintains six Northeastern US offices and specializes in patent litigation, labor and employment law and white collar investigations. Venable employs nearly 600 attorneys.