M. Kendall Day, a former acting deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, is joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C., office as partner on May 1.

Day worked for 15 years as a federal prosecutor, and spent the last year supervising about 200 prosecutors and staff in the Criminal Division at Main Justice. He previously led the division’s money laundering and asset recovery section from 2014 to 2017.