Former U.S. Attorney to Open King & Spalding Chicago Office

By Stephen Joyce, Bloomberg BNA

Zachary Fardon, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, is rejoining his old law firm King & Spalding to open a Chicago office, its 10th in the United States.

Fardon, who resigned as U.S. Attorney in March after nearly three and a half years on the job, started his career at the Atlanta-founded firm as an associate in the 1990s in its Washington, D.C. office.

“Many of the same lawyers who helped raise me as a young lawyer and I befriended as a young lawyer are still here,” he said.

Fardon considered returning ...