Michael Gottlieb, a former associate White House counsel under President Barack Obama, has jumped from Boies Schiller Flexner to Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where he will remain in Washington, D.C., and be a leader of the firm’s new crisis management practice.

Gottlieb, who started at the firm last week, had joined Boies Schiller in 2013, after leaving the Obama White House. He’s had a number of other prominent stops in public service, including U.S. Supreme Court clerk, staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee, assistant United States attorney, and the civilian leader of an international and interagency task force in Afghanistan.