Judiciary
Federal Judge Resigns to Join Law Firm
Posted Jul 14, 2009 6:30 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
U.S. District Judge Bruce Kauffman of Philadelphia is resigning to join the Elliott Greenleaf law firm.
Kauffman will chair Elliott Greenleaf’s executive committee, Philadelphia Business Today reports. The law firm cites the benefits of his experience with white-collar defense issues, corporate internal investigations, and mediation of complex financial and business disputes.
Kauffman became a federal judge in January 1998. He was chairman of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman when President Clinton nominated him for the federal bench. He was also a former justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
He became a senior judge last year, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.
Updated at 10:30 a.m. CT to add coverage from the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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anon
Jul 14, 2009 8:32 AM CST
He must have locked in all those over-the-top benefits they give federal judges. Having achieved lifetime financial security (something that few of us working at firms will ever be able to do), he can now afford to go do whatever he wants.
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mll
Jul 14, 2009 10:09 AM CST
Actually, Kauffman’s complained that the money isn’t good enough on the bench, thus he had to resign. (He is eligible for the $174,000 pension for life though.) He cries that it’s unfair that judge’s law clerks make more than the judge when they leave. Boo hoo.
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