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Sidley Austin has 1900 attorneys on staff so it's a challenge to find out if any of them in particular might be on the radar. From Wikipedia, they had their origins in Chicago. Also interesting:
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 personally affected the employees of Sidley Austin. Prior to the merger creating Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, which took place just four months before the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the head office of Brown & Wood was in the World Trade Center, while Sidley & Austin New York office was located in offices on Third Avenue. Out of 600 employees who worked in the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks, one perished, a switchboard operator, Rosemary Smith.[24][25]
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As far as the WW firm is concerned, none of the partners mention previous association with Sidley Austin. However, many of them have previous experience with governmental/court appointments rather than with private firms. Many of them clerked under Supreme Court justices including Ginsburg, Kagan, O'Connor, Breyer, and Roberts. Others clerked under 4th Circuit Court of Appeals judges.
Of special interest, Beth Wilkinson was an Army Captain and assistant to the General Counsel of the Army for Intelligence and Special Ops. She is the one who worked on the McVeigh case and also on the Noriega case.