#461: 09-20-96 - Waxman Named Deputy Solictor General

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                          SG
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1996                         (202) 616-2765
                                               TDD (202) 514-1888

WAXMAN NAMED DEPUTY SOLICITOR GENERAL

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seth P. Waxman, an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice, has been named Deputy Solicitor General, the Department of Justice announced today. He replaces Paul Bender, who returned to private practice.

"Seth has done a marvelous job on many difficult issues as Associate Deputy Attorney General," said Attorney General Janet Reno. "I know he will do an outstanding job in his new position." As an Associate Deputy Attorney General, Waxman was responsible for assisting the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General in policy making, management and oversight of all Department components and supervision of complex litigation. Waxman also frequently represented the Department in the National Security Council and other White House and interagency groups.

Prior to coming to the Department in 1994, Waxman was a Managing Partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, where he specialized in complicated criminal, civil and appellate litigation.

Waxman is a 1973 summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a 1977 graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. Waxman is a former Rockefeller Fellow and a law clerk to the late Judge Gerhard A. Gesell of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. #####

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