{"id":310,"date":"2022-06-08T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/?p=310"},"modified":"2022-06-08T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:07:03","slug":"longtime-federal-public-defender-leigh-skipper-to-join-duane-morris-at-end-of-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2022\/06\/08\/longtime-federal-public-defender-leigh-skipper-to-join-duane-morris-at-end-of-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Federal Public Defender Leigh Skipper to Join Duane Morris at End of June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leading the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for 14 years, Leigh Skipper is joining Duane Morris\u2019\u00a0white-collar defense division\u00a0at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper, who has served as chief federal defender for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2009, is slated to join the firm\u2019s\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0headquarters June 27 after serving his last day at the federal community defender office on June 17. The move brings\u00a0Duane Morris a public defender\u2019s perspective in government investigations and commercial litigation following a slew of prosecutor-side hires.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this article, which originally appeared in <em>The Legal Intelligencer<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/news\/longtime_federal_public_defender_leigh_skipper_join_duane_morri_end_june_0622.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leading the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for 14 years, Leigh Skipper is joining Duane Morris\u2019\u00a0white-collar defense division\u00a0at the end of June. Skipper, who has served as chief federal defender for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2009, is slated to join the firm\u2019s\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0headquarters June 27 after serving his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2022\/06\/08\/longtime-federal-public-defender-leigh-skipper-to-join-duane-morris-at-end-of-june\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Longtime Federal Public Defender Leigh Skipper to Join Duane Morris at End of June&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[302],"ppma_author":[241],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-leigh-skipper"],"authors":[{"term_id":241,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}