Per the Blog of Legal Times:
Deputy Solicitor General is set to be Neal Katyal.
Neal Katyal tapped to be Deputy SG
As the lawyer who defended Hamdan in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, landmark Supreme Court case. Katyal being named as Deputy Solicitor General is another pick designed to show a dramatic break from the past Bush Administration.
Per the Blog of Legal Times:
"Katyal's appointment is another strong signal of President-elect Barack Obama's intentions to depart sharply from the terrorist detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration. In Hamdan, the Supreme Court found that the Bush administration's military commissions for trying suspected terrorists violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions. The case, which marked Katyal's first appearance before the high court, was a stinging rebuke to the president's broad assertion of wartime power."
Another excellent choice by President Elect Obama and his transition.
Here is his appearance on the Colbert Report:
Neal Katyal on Colbert