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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

NEXT CHAPTER - Andrew Goldstein, one of special counsel Robert Mueller's lead prosecutors, has joined Cooley as a litigation partner in the firm's white-collar practice, dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and New York. As Ryan Lovelace reports, Goldstein took a lead role in investigating whether President Trump obstructed justice. He was reported to have spent dozens of hours questioning ex-White House counsel Don McGahn and imprisoned fixer Michael Cohen. Other members of Mueller's team have returned to law firms and elsewhere since the Russia investigation culminated in a 448-page report published in April, including Jeannie Rhee, who is joining Paul Weiss as a partner in the firm's white-collar litigation practice in Washington.

GOING THE DISTANCE - The mental health challenges for lawyers working in foreign outposts can be profound, with isolation and round-the-clock hours taking their toll. As part of Law.com's Minds Over Matters project, Phillip Bantz reportson what happens when lawyers find themselves navigating a world teeming with foreign languages, different foods, dissimilar cultural norms and a host of other changes. He also explores how they can prepare for what lies ahead.

GET READY - The California Consumer Privacy Act is set to go into effect Jan. 1, and, according to experts, class-action litigation is coming, Dan Clark reports. The upshot for companies? Get ready. Yesterday. “We're past the time where companies should have started preparing for the CCPA,” says Edward McAndrew, a partner at DLA Piper. As the law is currently written, consumers have broad leeway with have a private right of action. They can sue when their non-encrypted information is stolen, and they can file a claim even if they do not show actual damage from the data breach

EDITOR'S PICKS

Search Firm Sues 2 Kilpatrick Townsend Lawyers, Alleging Unpaid Placement Fee

Perkins Coie, Charting a Different Course, Grows in NY

Former WeWork Exec's Suit Claims Gender Pay Inequity

Plaintiffs' Lawyers Find a 'Strong Endorsement' in Government Data Breach Reversal

Talking SCOTUS With Paul Weiss Partner Kannon Shanmugam. What to Watch as 2018-19 Term Wraps Up

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

DOUBLING UP - U.K.-based DWF is absorbing a Melbourne law firm, enabling it to immediately double its banking and finance practice in Australia. Christopher Niesche reports that the 16-person firm, Korosidis Lawyers, will join DWF on July 1—a move that add to DWF's real estate financing practice. DWF, which went public earlier this year, has been rapidly expanding its global reach. Earlier this month it formed an exclusive association with Rousaud Costas Duran, a 40-partner Spanish law firm, and in May it bolted on the Warsaw office of U.S. firm K&L Gates.

WHAT YOU SAID

“So many D.C. lawyers are actors at heart. This is the drama of our time.”