Going back to the White House

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, May, 2007 | by Chris Mondics Inquirer Staff Writer

The first time Scott Coffina worked in the White House, he said he felt like "a kid in a candy store."

He had a low-ranking job in the Office of Political Affairs, at the end of President Ronald Reagan's second term. But with so many prominent people just down the corridor in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, it didn't matter that he had only minor responsibilities.

His next White House job promises to be very different.

Coffina, a partner in the old-line Philadelphia law firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, has been named associate counsel to the president and will begin work in the White House on Tuesday.

His new assignment will place Coffina, a white-collar defense...