Irell Hires Head of Global Investigations from DOJ

Seeking to bolster its white collar defense services, Irell & Manella has hired a federal foreign bribery and securities fraud prosecutor to head up a global investigations team.

Jason Linder, 42, returns to the firm after a decade of government work, most recently as a senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Washington, D.C. He previously worked at Irell as an associate from 2002 to 2007.

“I had finished a lot of big cases and was ready for new challenges,” said Linder, of his motivation to move back to Los Angeles and take ...