Today's DJ reports:
Michael Mongan Appointed State Solicitor General
- The Department of Justice announced Friday
Michael Mongan is taking over the position of Solicitor General from Edward
DuMont, who served for five years.
- Mongan joined the Department of Justice in 2014 as deputy solicitor
general and was promoted in 2017 to supervising deputy solicitor general,
according to the department. He previously worked in a private law firm,
handling civil litigation and also served as deputy counsel to Vice President
Joe Biden for the first two years of his term. He will officially take over as
solicitor general on Aug. 19.
The Recorder's article is
Former Souter Clerk Michael Mongan is named California Solicitor General:
Michael Mongan, a former Merrick Garland clerk, too, succeds Edward DuMont as California's top state appellate lawyer.
- Michael Mongan, a supervising deputy solicitor general in Becerra’s office for the last five years, will assume the title of solicitor general next month. Mongan, who clerked for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court, fills the role held by Edward DuMont, the former Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner who said in January he was leaving the attorney general’s office after nearly six years in the post.
- Mongan will take the reins of a 10-attorney office that plays a lead role in crafting California’s legal strategy in response to Trump administration policies. The state has filed more than four dozen legal actions against the federal government since President Donald Trump took office in 2017.
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