Credit: Andrey Popov/Adobe Stock Hire Up: Regulatory Scrutiny, Federal Government Priorities Drive More Lateral Moves
White-collar defense and infrastructure-related work are top of mind for big firms.
April 23, 2021 at 05:00 AM
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An increased emphasis on government investigations, and other priorities of a new presidential administration, continued to drive law firm hiring strategies this week.
Brian Morrissey departed his post at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he served as principal deputy general counsel, to rejoin Sidley Austin's Washington, D.C., office. Morrissey previously worked at the firm's D.C. office as a partner and associate before joining the Department of Justice in 2017.
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Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, is 1:24-cv-09445, Gonzalez v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank et al.
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Crown Castle International, a Pennsylvania company providing shared communications infrastructure, has turned to Luke D. Wolf of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani to fend off a pending breach-of-contract lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 25 in Michigan Eastern District Court by Hooper Hathaway PC on behalf of The Town Residences LLC, accuses Crown Castle of failing to transfer approximately $30,000 in utility payments from T-Mobile in breach of a roof-top lease and assignment agreement. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Susan K. Declercq, is 2:24-cv-13131, The Town Residences LLC v. T-Mobile US, Inc. et al.
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