Weil, Gotshal & Manges has a new head of its SEC enforcement and litigation practice in Washington, D.C. - Christian Bartholomew, a former senior enforcement lawyer at the SEC.  Mr. Bartholomew is the second Washington insider to join Weil in the past month - Derrick Cephas is the other.  Mr. Cephas became the head of Weil’s financial regulatory group;  he most recently was CEO of Amalgamated Bank, and before that was a former superintendent of banks for New York State. 

The firm’s Washington office also employs Steven Tyrrell, a former federal prosecutor who ran the Justice Department’s fraud unit from 2006 - 2009, and William Burck, who was deputy White House counsel to President George W. Bush. 

        Mr. Bartholomew's CV.  Before joining Weil, Mr. Bartholomew was with Morgan, Lewis & Brockius, serving as vice chairman for securities enforcement and litigation.  Before that, he spent 5 years in the late 1990s as a senior trial counsel for the SEC - trying broker-dealers and other financial institutions on civil fraud charges.  He also has been in private practice, servicing such clients as TD Ameritrade, Raymond James and SunTrust Banks.   [NYT DealBook, 5/4/11]