Neal Wolin (pictured), president and chief operating officer of the property & casualty business at The Hartford, is returning to lawyering as Deputy Counsel to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Assistant to the President. Basically, he’ll be Larry Summers’s lawyer at the National Economic Council.
Wolin (Yale BA, Oxford MS, Yale JD) was executive vice president and general counsel of HIG from 2001 to 2007, when he was promoted and moved over to the business side as head of P&C. He joined The Hartford from Treasury, where he was also general counsel. Prior to that, he had other legal roles in government, including Executive Assistant to the National Security Advisor and as Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council.
We’ve documented Obama’s frequent trips to the BigLaw well, but he hasn’t plucked too many inhouse counsel, as far as we know.
Trivia: The Hartford’s current GC, Alan Kreczko (Boston College BA ’73, Michigan JD ’76), was Wolin’s boss at one of Wolin’s earlier stops in government. When Wolin came to The Hartford, he brought Kreczko with him as Deputy GC.
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