Wayne State University Law School is hosting the Academy of Scholars Annual Senior Lecture by U.S. Assistant Attorney General Tony West on Thursday, March 8, at 4 p.m. in Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
West will speak on the Department of Justice’s efforts to protect consumers from fraud and abuse.
The event is free and open to the public.
West serves as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Division.
As the largest litigating division in the DOJ, the civil division represents the United States in legal challenges to congressional statutes, administration policies and federal agency actions.
West graduated with honors from Harvard College where he served as publisher of the Harvard Political Review. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School where he was elected president of the Stanford Law Review.
He first served in the DOJ a year after graduating from law school. From 1993 through 1994, he served as a special assistant to the deputy attorney general. From 1994 to 1999, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California; after that, he was a state special assistant attorney general in California.
Prior to returning to the Justice Department, West was a litigation partner at Morrison and Foerster LLP in San Francisco.
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