{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1967)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Brian Boynton | image = Brian Boynton official photo.jpg | office = United States Assistant Attorney General<br />for the Civil Division | status = Acting | president = Joe Biden | term_start = January 20, 2021 | term_end = January 20, 2025 | predecessor = Jeffrey Clark (acting) | successor = Yaakov M. Roth (acting) | education = Dartmouth College (BA)<br>Stanford University (JD) }}

'''Brian Matthew Boynton'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Brian Matthew Boynton |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/18112610 |publisher=Bloomberg |access-date=June 15, 2024}}</ref> is an American lawyer who served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division since 2021.<ref name="justice.gov">{{cite web |title=Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton |url=https://www.justice.gov/civil/staff-profile/meet-principal-deputy-assistant-attorney-general |website=justice.gov |access-date=June 15, 2024}}</ref>

== Early life and education == Boynton enrolled at Dartmouth College, where he graduated ''summa cum laude'' in 1997 with a degree in economics. He attended Stanford Law School, where he was a notes editor of the ''Stanford Law Review''. He graduated Order of the Coif in 2000 with a Juris Doctor degree.<ref name="WilmerHale">{{cite web |title=Brian Boynton, Counselor to Obama Administration Attorney General, Joins WilmerHale |url=https://www.wilmerhale.com/insights/news/2017-04-17-brian-boynton-counselor-to-obama-administration-attorney-general-joins-wilmerhale |publisher=WilmerHale |access-date=June 15, 2024 |date=April 17, 2017}}</ref>

== Career == Boynton served as a law clerk for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.<ref name="WilmerHale"/> From 2002 to 2014, he practiced law at the law firm WilmerHale in Washington, D.C.<ref name="justice.gov"/> He worked in the Department of Justice from 2014 to 2017, serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel and then as a Counselor to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.<ref name="justice.gov"/> He rejoined WilmerHale as a partner in April 2017.<ref name="WilmerHale"/> In January 2021, he joined the Biden administration, serving as Acting Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the Department of Justice.<ref name="justice.gov"/>

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