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Top Women Lawyers

May 10, 2012

Melinda Haag

U.S. attorney San Francisco Practice type: litigation


Shortly after Haag took over as Northern District U.S. attorney a couple of years ago, she sat down with every one of her line prosecutors to gather input on how the office should be organized and what her priorities should be. The exercise led her to restructure the office and create a special prosecutions team that consolidated public integrity, civil rights, national security, environmental, securities fraud and several other areas.


"We've shown resul...

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