After nearly 30 years as a lawyer and prosecutor with the SEC and the DOJ, Steve Korotash is leaving government service for private practice. Since 2007, Korotash has served as Associate Director of the SEC's Fort Worth Regional Office, overseeing all of that office's enforcement activities in the Southwest. Among other things, Korotash has been the lead lawyer on the SEC's high-profile enforcement action concerning the alleged $8 billion Ponzi scheme by R. Allen Stanford.

Prior to becoming Associate Director, Korotash served as Chief Trial Attorney in the SEC's Fort Worth office and as Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the SEC's Washington, D.C. headquarters. Prior to joining the SEC in 1989, Korotash served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Oklahoma. 

Korotash is headed to law firm K&L Gates. The firm announced yesterday that Korotash has joined its Dallas office.