Alec Baldwin has hired former US assistant attorney Aaron Dyer to defend him in multiple lawsuits relating to the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.
He served as US assistant attorney is Los Angeles for seven years prosecuting cases before returning to private practice in New York.
No legal charges have yet been filed in relation to the death of Hutchins but prosecutors have said they are still investigating the incident.
Dyer has previously represented high profile clients such as Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.