He also worked as a summer intern for Tuttle & Taylor, and Morrison & Foerster in 1991. While attending Stanford, he worked as a summer intern for Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman in 1990. He received his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1992, where he served as the President of the Stanford Law Review. West also served as a finance director to the Democratic Governors Association, until 1989. In 1988, West began volunteering and working on political campaigns, engaging in Democratic political causes, such as working as the chief of staff to the Boston, Massachusetts treasurer of Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign. West received his Bachelor of Arts in government from Harvard College in 1987, where he served as publisher of the Harvard Political Review. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, a Catholic, all-male, private secondary school, where he served as freshman class president, before graduating in 1983. His father, the first person in his family to attend college, was born and raised in Georgia and worked for IBM while his mother, who was a teacher, was born and raised in Alabama. West was raised in San Jose, California, where he lived with his two younger sisters, Pamela and Patricia. West was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret "Peggy" ( née Reddick) and Franklin Delano West (1940-2013). On August 21, 2014, West announced a $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America to resolve federal and state claims against Bank of America and its former and current subsidiaries, including Countrywide Financial Corporation and Merrill Lynch. West was also involved in efforts by the Department to reclaim $37 billion from large financial institutions and worked on the department's efforts to improve public safety in Indian country, including the tribal provisions in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). ĭuring his time at the Department of Justice, West played a role in the administration's decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) after concluding that the statute was unconstitutional. West previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division, the largest litigating division in the Department of Justice. Before Uber, West was Associate Attorney General of the United States and general counsel of PepsiCo. Derek Anthony West (born August 12, 1965) is an American attorney and former government official, and the current Senior Vice President and chief legal officer of Uber.
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