Government
Aug. 15, 2002
Lempres to Join Ryan's Office
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael T. Lempres, a former vice president and general counsel for the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, who also boasts immigration and international law experience, has signed on as special counsel to Kevin Ryan, the new U.S. attorney in San Francisco.
Lempres, 42, will serve as a top aide to Ryan and work on what has been described as "several special projects involving management of the office."
"In the short term, I expect to be involved in broader brush management rather than specific involvement on individual matters," Lempres said Tuesday.
Lempres, who served most recently at the Pacific Exchange, began his career as a White House fellow appointed by President Reagan. He served as special assistant to Attorney General Richard Thornburg.
Between 1989 and 1991, he held the No. 2 position at the Immigration and Naturalization Service as the executive commissioner and as a deputy associate attorney general under William Barr.
He also served as director of the Office of International Affairs, within the Justice Department, which is responsible for all legal contacts between the United States and other nations.
Lempres spent a year in Japan in 1994 as part of the United States-Japan Leadership Fellowship, hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Justice.
In private practice in Washington, D. C., and San Francisco, Lempres worked for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Haver & Feld and McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen handling a variety of litigation involving the federal government. Cases generally involved the federal Court of Claims, not criminal work, he said.
Lempres is a fifth-generation San Franciscan, an avid runner and a graduate of Boalt Hall.
Pamela Mac Lean
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