Rocky shuffle.

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's righthand man, Terree Bowers, has landed at Howrey LLP.

Bowers left last month amid a management reshuffle at the City Attorney's Office following Delgadillo's re-election. He joins four other local partners at Howrey's white-collar criminal practice group.

Bowers left the City Attorney's Office along with two other top attorneys: Luis Li, head of the criminal division, and Josh Perttula, who oversaw the city's airport, harbor and water and power departments.

Months earlier, several managers resigned from the office's civil division, communications department, real estate and economic development group, government relations and municipal counsel branch.

City Attorney spokesman Jonathan Diamond said the departures did not reflect a management reshuffling.

"There were a couple of folks in senior positions who announced their intentions to leave at the end of Rocky's first term, and Terree was chief among them," he said. "They all had their own personal reasons for moving on, but the transition to the second term seemed like a natural point for them to do that."

As former interim U.S. attorney in Los Angeles from 1992 to 1994, Bowers managed the federal government's local prosecutors after serving in the No. 2 position as chief assistant U.S. attorney. He was assistant U.S. attorney in the criminal division during the 1980s.

During his tenure at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Bowers handled several asset forfeiture and high-profile cases, including the Rodney King civil rights trial and the Charles Keating fraud case.

From 1994 to 1998, Bowers was U.S. representative in The Hague, Netherlands, at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Bowers joined the City Attorney's Office in Los Angeles after Delgadillo's election in 2001. He could not be reached for comment.