Preet Bharara (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Preet has shown as a prosecutor that he is willing to take on the political establishment. He’s also shown he can win. There is no question that these are qualities that the president-elect admires.
— Arlo Devlin-Brown, federal prosecutor turned Covington & Burling partner, commenting on the news that his former boss, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, has agreed to stay on as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor after Donald Trump assumes the presidency.
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].