With its current chief lawyer going back into private practice, the Bank Policy Institute, a nonpartisan public policy and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation’s biggest banks, looked in-house to find its next general counsel.

John Court, who has served as BPI’s senior vice president and deputy GC since July, is being promoted to GC, a spokesman for the group confirmed Wednesday. Court is expected to take over as BPI’s top lawyer later this summer.