Mark Filip

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Filip
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Jun 1, 1966(1966-06-01)
Age	58
Country	United States
Birth City	Chicago
Horoscope	Gemini

Mark Filip Biography

Mark Filip is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on June 1, 1966 in Chicago, United States. Mark Robert Filip (born June 1st in 1967) is an American lawyer who is specialized in class actions and white collar regulatory and criminal defense. Formerly , he was a Partner in Skadden, Arps, he is currently a lawyer at the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland and Ellis. From 2004 to 2008 Filip was an United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In the aftermath of when the George W. Bush administration came to an end, Filip served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and as the Barack Obama administration began he briefly was acting Attorney General (from January 20th, 2009 until February 3 in 2009).

After his time in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Filip was a partner at the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom from 1999 to 2004. In that office, he worked in a wide range of aspects of civil as well as criminal law. He was also involved in a number of pro bono matters, which included a number of cases involving people in need as part of his work with the Federal Defender’s Office in Chicago. Filip is now an associate with Chicago in the Chicago branch at Kirkland & Ellis.

Filip was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on March 3, 2008, and he was sworn in as Deputy Attorney General on March 10, 2008. Filip was asked to assume the position of Acting Attorney General by then President- elect Obama. Filip led the Department while President Obama’s nominee, then Attorney-General Designate Eric Holder, awaited confirmation by the United States Senate. Holder was confirmed on February 2, 2009, and sworn in the next day thus ending Filip’s tenure as the Acting Attorney General.

Filip worked in a private law firm as an associate of Kirkland & Ellis from 1994 until 1995. He was then the Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago between 1995 and 1999. In this position, he prosecuted cases before the appellate and trial courts, involving a variety of criminal offenses, including violent crimes and political, judicial corruption in the police as well as health care fraud and international trafficking in narcotics. As an AUSA, Filip received a Department of Justice Director’s Award for Outstanding Performance in his position as Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Mark Filip Net Worth

Mark Filip is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Filip 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The native of Chicago, Filip attended Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, the same high-school attended by Hillary Clinton. The school he attended graduated him from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988, earning BA degrees in history and economics as an active member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After graduation, he attended Christ Church at Oxford University in England with an Marshall Scholarship, and graduated in 1990 with the degree of bachelor of Arts in Law Highest Honors First Class. He went on to Harvard Law School, where the law school awarded him the Juris Doctor magna cum laude in 1992. He was also editor of Harvard Law Review. Harvard Law Review.

Following the law program, Filip was a clerk for judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1992 to 1993, and later as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court from 1993 until 1994.

On April 28, 2003, Filip was nominated by President Bush to be a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, to a seat vacated by Harry D. Leinenweber. After being confirmed 96-0 by the Senate on February 4, 2004, and receiving his commission on February 8, 2004, Filip was sworn into that office in March 2004. As a judge, he presided over numerous cases involving criminal, antitrust, securities fraud, immigration and other matters. Filip has taught for many years at the University of Chicago Law School, where he served from 2004 to March 2008 as the Bustin Lecturer and taught both advanced criminal law and first-year civil procedure. Filip officially resigned his judicial service on March 9, 2008.

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Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mark Filip celebrates birthday on June 1 of every year.