Tech Trade Counsel Gets Top Justice Slot
Business Software Alliance General Counsel Neil MacBride will be moving into one of the top positions at the Justice Department in the Obama Administration. MacBride has been named associate deputy attorney general, according to the trade group. In his new position, MacBride -- who has been BSA's vice president of anti-piracy and general counsel -- will serve on the senior leadership team of Attorney General-designee Eric Holder and will help manage the agency's 115,000 employees and $22 billion budget.
MacBride will also manage the criminal components of the Justice Department, including the 93 United States Attorneys Offices, the Criminal Division, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and other entities. MacBride will advise the attorney general on criminal justice, law enforcement, and intellectual property issues and oversee the policy and legislative offices in DOJ. Members of BSA include Adobe, Apple, Cisco Systems, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Quest. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, he has lobbied for BSA in the past.
Prior to joining BSA, MacBride served for four years as counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee and four years of service as an assistant attorney in the Criminal Division of DOJ. He has also been the chief counsel and staff director to Vice President Joseph Biden when he was in the Senate. MacBride once worked as an attorney at a law firm where he focused on white collar defense and legislative/regulatory issues. He also served as a judicial law clerk for District Judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr. in the Eastern District of Virginia. MacBride is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. -- Winter Casey
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