Jesse Panuccio, the former third-ranking official at the U.S. Justice Department, has joined Boies Schiller Flexner as a partner, adding a high-ranking veteran of the Trump administration to the ranks of a firm headed by a prominent Democratic lawyer.

Panuccio stepped down from the Justice Department in May, ending a two-year tenure in which he twice stepped into the role of acting associate attorney general, a perch that put him in charge of an expansive portfolio of civil cases, including litigation in defense of Trump administration policies.