Pepper Hamilton partner and managing director of Free Group International Solutions LAWRENCE BYRNE will leave private practice to become the New York City Police Department’s deputy commissioner for legal matters.
The move is a return to civil service for Byrne, who previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney and deputy chief in the U.S. Department of Justice’s organized crime and racketeering section. He left to become a partner in the New York office of Linklaters in 2006 and eventual head of the U.S. litigation practice.
