By Nate Raymond

Oct 26 (Reuters) - George Terwilliger, a prominent white-collar defense attorney in Washington, is set to leave White & Case to join Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Terwilliger, once a deputy attorney general under former president George H.W. Bush, will be joined by three other White & Case lawyers in the move, Morgan Lewis said Friday. Daniel Levin, Matthew Miner and Robert Bittman will all join as partner.

Terwilliger, who will officially join Morgan Lewis next Thursday, said in an interview he would have greater resources at his new firm.

Terwilliger served as deputy attorney general, the No. 2 official in the U.S. Justice Department, and later acting attorney general during the administration of the first president Bush.

In private practice, Terwilliger has focused primarily on white-collar defense cases and government investigations, along with civil litigation.

He represented former U.S. attorney general Alberto Gonzales during congressional investigations into the 2006 scandal over the dismissal of federal prosecutors.

He also represented Bill Allen, the former chief executive of Alaska oilfield services company VECO Corp, in a corruption investigation that led to the indictment of former U.S. senator Ted Stevens.

Charges against Stevens were later dismissed. Allen, who cooperated with prosecutors, was sentenced in 2009 to three years in prison and fined $750,000.

Terwilliger has also been involved in the presidential election campaign of Mitt Romney, which last October announced he would be one of several former members of the Justice Department to advise the campaign on law enforcement issues.

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