David H. Hoffman

David H. Hoffman is a
partner at the law firm Sidley Austin. 
His practice focuses on complex civil litigation at the trial and
appellate level and the representation of Boards of Directors in internal and
governmental investigations.  Before
joining Sidley in 2011, Mr. Hoffman worked in public service, including serving
as Inspector General for the City of Chicago (2005-09), an Assistant U.S.
Attorney and Deputy Chief with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago
(1998-2005), and Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant to Senator David
Boren (D-OK) (1990-92).  He was appointed
by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to serve as a Commissioner on the Illinois
Reform Commission (2009) and by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as a
Director of the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (2012-14), and has served since
2012 as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the U.S.
Legal Services Corporation, the federal entity that provides funding to legal
aid clinics.  Recent not-for-profit positions
include Co-Chair of the Civil Rights Executive Committee of the Anti-Defamation
League, Midwest Chapter, member of the Board of Advisors of the American
Constitution Society’s Chicago Lawyer Chapter, and Director of the Better
Government Association, where he remains a Life Trustee. Mr. Hoffman was the
runner up in the Illinois Democratic primary for the United States Senate in
2010 after being endorsed by all the major daily newspapers in Illinois.  He is a graduate of Yale University and the
University of Chicago Law School where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review, a Patino Fellow, President
of the Law School Democrats, and recipient of the University President’s Award
for Volunteer Service.  After law school,
Mr. Hoffman served as a law clerk for Judge Dennis G. Jacobs of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the
U.S. Supreme Court.  He has been a
Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School since 2010 and is the
co-author of Public Corruption and the
Law (West 2016), the first law school textbook on the subject.  (Chicago, IL)