Katelyn Polantz

September 05, 2017 | National Law Journal

Norman Bay, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico and most recently chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Priya Aiyar, previously the Treasury Department's acting general counsel, joined Willkie as partners Tuesday.

By Katelyn Polantz

12 minute read

September 05, 2017 | National Law Journal

The firm is building out its natural resources and Native American practices with the hire this week of a former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. 

By Katelyn Polantz

7 minute read

September 05, 2017 | National Law Journal

Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law hires and other Washington, D.C., legal industry news.

By Katelyn Polantz

62 minute read

August 31, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Erotica writer Seelie Kay's newest published short story collection starts innocently enough.“Laura McClintock sighed as Carmen Marinaldo stalked toward the jury with the exquisite grace of a panther.” By sentence two, Kay hints a bit more at what her writing has to come: “The mass torts lawyer exuded power, sexual heat and passion. He held everyone in the courtroom in his thrall.”

By KATELYN POLANTZ

7 minute read

August 31, 2017 | National Law Journal

Over the past six months, a new presidential administration, a ninth U.S. Supreme Court justice and a pesky but ever-present special investigation have turned this city nearly upside down. But what hasn't changed is how the legal industry in Washington, D.C.—or what I would call our shadow government—does business.

By Katelyn Polantz

4 minute read

August 29, 2017 | The American Lawyer

The writer Seelie Kay—that's a pseudonym—used to work at large law firms in Milwaukee. But over the past year, she has spun the fairly mundane into erotic fantasy by writing dozens of short stories about lawyers, judges and others in the legal profession in various states of undress and ecstasy.

By Katelyn Polantz

12 minute read

August 27, 2017 | National Law Journal

Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law hires and other Washington, D.C., legal industry news.

By Katelyn Polantz

9 minute read

August 25, 2017 | National Law Journal

Kevin Downing, a tax partner at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C., left the firm Thursday. He will continue to advise President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who reportedly received subpoenas Friday from a federal grand jury probing a public relations firm that did work for Ukraine.

By Katelyn Polantz

4 minute read

August 24, 2017 | National Law Journal

The global legal giant is set to lose its U.S. aviation practice to LeClairRyan, according to two people who follow the practice area. The group, which includes partner Mark Dombroff in Tysons, Virginia, is known for its representation of aviation industry clients after plane crashes.

By Katelyn Polantz

4 minute read

August 24, 2017 | National Law Journal

Finally, a week in which the lateral market takes a breather. As August grinds on, fewer and fewer firms announce new partner hires in Washington, D.C. That doesn't mean we haven't had a busy year thus far, and that the lateral market won't spike again in September or toward year's end.

By Katelyn Polantz

37 minute read