CORRECTION, 8/28/12, 6:25 p.m. EDT: The original version of this article incorrectly identified which law firm Edward De Sear was affilliated with at the point in 2010 when a federal indictment claims he viewed and shared illegal videos while logged onto his employer’s wireless network. De Sear was with Bingham McCutchen at the time. The article has been revised to reflect the correct information. We regret the error.

A year after he was charged by federal prosecutors in New Jersey with distributing child pornography, former Allen & Overy capital markets partner Edward De Sear was arrested again Thursday on additional child pornography charges.

De Sear, 65, appeared in U.S. district court in Newark Thursday, where he was charged with three counts of advertising child pornography, four counts of distribution, and one count of possession, according to a press release from the U.S. attorney’s office in Newark. As The Am Law Daily has previously reported, De Sear was arrested last year on one count of distribution of child pornography before being released on $250,000 bond and being ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device.

De Sear consented to detention at the Thursday hearing and a detention hearing scheduled for August 28 in Newark. De Sear’s arraignment has been scheduled for September 5 in Newark, according to a spokeswoman at the U.S. attorney’s office in Newark. If convicted, he faces up to 180 years in prison and up to $2 million in fines.

De Sear is being represented by John Vazquez of Critchely, Kinum & Vazquez, in Roseland, New Jersey. Vazquez did not immediately respond to The Am Law Daily‘s request for comment.

The graphic 21-page indictment against De Sear unsealed Thursday alleges that he used an online peer-to-peer file-sharing program to download and distribute hundreds of illegal images. The program allowed De Sear to invite "friends" to join his network in order to share images and videos of children being sexually exploited. According to the indictment, at various points in 2010 and 2011 undercover law enforcement agents logged onto the program and downloaded files De Sear had made available online.   

The indictment also claims that in May 2010 De Sear logged onto the peer-to-peer program using the wireless network of the law firm where he worked at the time, at which point an undercover agent observed that De Sear was viewing and sharing videos featuring prepubescent boys being sexually exploited.

As The Am Law Daily reported last summer, De Sear joined Allen & Overy in August 2010 from Bingham McCutchen. At the time of his 2011 arrest, De Sear was still employed by Allen & Overy, but his biography disappeared from the Magic Circle firm’s website shortly after the firm became aware of the charges against him. In a statement released to U.K. publication Legal Week last year, a firm spokesman said everyone at Allen & Overy was "shocked and appalled" by the news of De Sear’s initial arrest. The spokesman noted that De Sear had resigned from his post at the firm, which would make no further comment on the federal investigation.

The former chairman of the structured finance team at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, De Sear left that firm in 2003 for McKee Nelson, which merged with Bingham in 2009.

Both a spokesman at Allen & Overy and a spokeswoman at Bingham declined to comment.