Michael Lawrence Brown
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Georgetown University B.A. University of Georgia School of Law J.D. |
Michael Lawrence Brown is an American lawyer and equity partner and co-chair of the White Collar and Government Investigations practice group in the Atlanta office of Alston & Bird LLP. He is currently a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Biography
He received his Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University, and his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and served on the editorial board and the managerial board of the Georgia Law Review. He started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta. Brown spent four years as a litigation associate in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding LLP. Prior to his career in a law firm, he served for six years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia and in the Southern District of Florida, where he tried more than twenty-five cases and argued criminal appeals.[1]
Nomination to district court
On July 13, 2017, President Trump nominated Brown to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, to the seat vacated by Judge Julie E. Carnes, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. His nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[2]