1. John Patrick "Sean" Coffey is an American attorney, businessman, retired US Navy captain, and political candidate who served as general counsel of the Navy from 2022 until early 2025.
16 Facts About Sean Coffey
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Sean Coffey led a lawsuit against WorldCom on behalf of investors.
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In 2011, Sean Coffey co-founded BlackRobe Capital Partners, which closed one and a half years later.
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Sean Coffey's father John, from County Kerry, was a union carpenter and his mother Mary, from Courtmacsherry, County Cork, was a homemaker.
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Sean Coffey graduated from Chaminade High School in 1974 and won an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, taking the oath of office as a midshipman at age 17.
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Sean Coffey attended Georgetown University Law Center at night, graduating in 1987.
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Sean Coffey was appointed an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York in 1991, and worked with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies prosecuting a variety of crimes.
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Sean Coffey was selected as one of the National Law Journal's "Top Ten Winning Attorneys" of 2005, and was profiled by the American Lawyer, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Markets magazine, which dubbed him "Wall Street's New Nemesis".
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Reuters writing of Sean Coffey at the time said [that] "Sean Coffey is a rarity in the legal sector, where lawyers are often entrenched at big law firms representing either plaintiffs or defendants and rarely move between them".
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In October 2009, Sean Coffey retired from his partnership at Bernstein Litowitz to pursue the Democratic nomination for New York State attorney general.
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Sean Coffey reported that he raised over $1.65 million in the first two months of his campaign.
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On February 26,2022, Sean Coffey was sworn in as the 24th General Counsel of the US Department of the Navy.
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In fact the legal dilema was more detailed than that as Sean Coffey himself related in a Georgetown Law School magazine article on the case.
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Sean Coffey was previously an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University.
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Sean Coffey has served or serves on the boards of Common Cause New York, Council for Unity, the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, Greenhope Services for Women, and ThanksUSA.
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In 2025 Coffey Joined the mediation firm Phillips ADR, founded by former US Fedreral Judge Layn R Phillips, as an arbitrator, negotiator.