Matthew D. Orwig

Matthew D. Orwig (born Jan. 2, 1959 in Ardmore, Oklahoma) is an American attorney. Orwig has served three presidents and five attorneys general in leadership positions in the Department of Justice. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas in 2001 and served there until 2007. Orwig currently serves as managing partner of the Dallas office of SNR Denton and is a member of the Litigation and Disputes Department Leadership.

Early career

Orwig began his career as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Halbert O. Woodward, chief judge of the Northern District of Texas. Orwig then spent three years at Jones, Trout, Flygare, Moody & Brown, where he progressed from associate to partner. Orwig joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Texas in 1989. He stayed there until 1997, when he left to spend a year in Washington D.C. as a Legal Advisor in the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys. In 1998, he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Health Care Fraud Coordinator in the Eastern District of Texas.

U.S. Attorney

President George W. Bush named Orwig U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas in 2001. As U.S. Attorney, Orwig directed some of the most high profile and successful prosecutions in the country, including cases targeting public corruption, money laundering, securities fraud, insider trading, health care fraud, capital murder and domestic terrorism. He also served on numerous subcommittees of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, including the White-Collar Fraud Subcommittee and the Health Care Fraud Working Group.^{[citation needed]}

SNR Denton

Orwig joined SNR Denton (then Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal) in 2007. As a founding member and Managing Partner of the firm's Dallas office, Orwig has guided the office's development from a three-attorney operation to the rapidly-growing 60 attorney office it is today.

Since entering the private sector, Orwig has also been recognized as a premier Texas attorney by a number of publications. In 2010, Orwig was listed as a top attorney in Texas Super Lawyers and as a top attorney in criminal defense/white collar by the "Corporate Counsel" edition of the national Super Lawyers. In 2009, he was listed as a "Texas Super Lawyer" by Texas Monthly. D Magazine named him among 2008's "Best Lawyers in Dallas," citing his work in white-collar criminal defense, and later named him among the "Best Business Lawyers" of 2009, citing his representation of companies involved in government investigations. The February 2009 issue of D CEO named Orwig as the lawyer "You Need to Know."^{[citation needed]}

Publications/writings

Orwig was a principal author of the Dallas Ethics Code, which was adopted by the Dallas City Council.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Orwig graduated form Texas Tech University School of Law in 1984. He was named the 2007 "Alumnus of the Year" by Texas Tech University School of Law.

He previously earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Texas Tech in 1981 and graduated from Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas, in 1977.

Orwig has also served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and Texas Wesleyan Law School.

References

(1) http://www.snrdenton.com/people/o/orwig_matthew_d.aspx

(2) http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/dallas070904.html

(3) http://www.sptimes.com/2003/02/11/news_pf/Worldandnation/Wing_part_came_from_t.shtml

(4) http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/195482-orwig-departs-federal-office-ratcliffe-in-as-u.s.-attorney

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