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Acting General Counsel Gus P. Coldebella

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On October 16, 2007, the President nominated Gus P. Coldebella to serve as the Department of Homeland Security’s third general counsel, a position he has filled in an acting capacity since February 7, 2007. Mr. Coldebella joined the Department of Homeland Security as deputy general counsel on October 3, 2005.

Mr. Coldebella manages the over 1,750 lawyers in the Department of Homeland Security, advises Secretary Chertoff and other senior leadership on legal issues arising throughout the Department, oversees the Department's regulatory program, and coordinates with legal and policy officials around the executive branch, the White House, Congress, and state and local governments on homeland security-related issues.

He joined the Department after 11 years in private practice. Until September 2005, Mr. Coldebella was a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, where he practiced in the firm’s litigation department and specialized in trial and appellate work, complex business and transactional cases, securities class action defense, SEC investigations and enforcement actions. Mr. Coldebella also prosecuted criminal defendants as a special assistant district attorney in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He is a graduate of Colgate University, where he currently serves as vice president of its Alumni Council, and received his J.D. magna cum laude from Cornell Law School. 

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