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Schiff Hardin LLP Welcomes Byung ("BJay") J. Pak as a Partner in the Litigation Group of the Atlanta Office

April 03, 2008

Byung ("BJay") J. Pak has joined Schiff Hardin as a partner in the Litigation Group of the Atlanta office from the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia where he was an Assistant United States Attorney.

Mr. Pak concentrates his practice in white collar crime and corporate compliance matters.

"We are thrilled to have BJay join our white collar team," said Schiff Hardin Managing Partner Ronald S. Safer. "He expands the geographic reach of our talented and growing white collar practice. Atlanta is an important and expanding market for the firm. BJay is a tremendous addition to our Atlanta office."

David H. Williams, Partner-in-Charge of Schiff Hardin's Atlanta office, added, "We are happy to welcome BJay to our Atlanta office. The knowledge and perspective he brings from his experience at the U.S. Attorney's Office will help us to continue to develop and expand our firm's presence in Atlanta, while widening the range of our white collar practice. We are confident that BJay will prove to be an asset not only to the Atlanta office, but to the entire firm."

As an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Pak gained extensive experience in conducting grand jury investigations and prosecuting complex white collar crimes, including accounting and securities fraud, bank fraud, export control violations, and public corruption.

While at the United States Attorney's Office, Mr. Pak handled several high profile cases, including the successful conviction at trial of a former employee of The Coca-Cola Company for conspiring to steal the company's valuable trade secrets (U.S. v. Williams et al.); the successful conviction at trial of the CEO of a meat and biscuit business for fraudulently altering the financial records of his company in order to defraud the Branch Banking & Trust Company (U.S. v. Slaughter); the successful prosecution of the former financial director of the Make-A-Wish Foundation for Georgia and Alabama for embezzling donated funds by stealing the identities of "wish" families (U.S. v. Joseph Garrison); and the successful prosecution of a department director of Berry College (owner 45,000 acres of timber land) for executing a fraudulent scheme to defraud the college over $2 million over a period of 12 years (U.S. v. Robert Parker).

Mr. Pak is a graduate of Stetson University (B.B.A., Accounting, 1995) and the University of Illinois College of Law (J.D., 1998).