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Lee Rudofsky Hired as State’s Solicitor General

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Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Thursday announced the hiring of Lee Rudofsky as the state’s solicitor general.

Rudofsky comes from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, where he had been an assistant general counsel since 2014. 

Rudofsky’s salary at the attorney general’s office will be $120,000.

“Lee brings a wealth of experience and expertise from the public and private sectors, as well as being one of the top litigators in the country,” Rutledge said in a news release.

“Arkansas was one of only a few states without a solicitor general, and as part of my commitment to make the attorney general’s office the top law firm in the state, I felt the position was needed to assist with the growing number of large multi-state consumer protection cases and the increasing appellate matters at the state and national levels,” she said.

The New York native is a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School. He received his bachelor of science degree and master of public administration from Cornell University in 2001 and 2002.

Before working for Wal-Mart, Rudofsky spent time at the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP working on commercial and constitutional cases. While there, Rudofsky was an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law, teaching a seminar on environmental and administrative law.

In 2012, he was deputy general counsel for Romney for President Inc. He was also deputy general counsel to the Steve Poizner for Governor 2010 campaign.

“I am humbled by the confidence of Attorney General Rutledge,” Rudofsky said in a news release. “I look forward to joining Attorney General Rutledge as she protects Arkansans from criminals and scam artists and pushes back against an overreaching federal government. It is an honor to serve Arkansans as the State’s first solicitor general.”

Earlier this year, the Legislature’s Joint Budget Subcommittee on Personnel approved Rutledge’s request to reclassify of a current attorney general’s office position to solicitor general. Rutledge said the change did not increase the number of employees in the office or increase the requested appropriation.

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