Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon McCarthy Jumps to K&L Gates in Dallas

© 2015 The Texas Lawbook.By Brooks Igo (Sept. 3) – K&L Gates recently announced that former Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon McCarthy has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in its government enforcement practice. McCarthy, who was in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas the past eight years, was most recently in the fraud and white-collar crime section. He will focus on regulatory, investigation and litigation matters at K&L Gates. “When you get a chance to build and grow a white collar section in the ninth largest city in the U.S., at one of the best firms in the world, working for people like Dick Thornburgh, Mike Missal and John Garda, you really cannot turn down an opportunity like that,” he said. “That is why I left a job that I loved.” The SMU Dedman School of Law graduate says his experience at the U.S. Attorney’s office exposed him to almost every type of fraud and crime there is and helped him develop “lifelong relationships” with special agents, federal judges and prosecutors. “If you have never been on the other side, you really do not know how to completely and accurately assess a case from top to bottom,” said…