Sometime in the last year, with no fanfare, Williams & Connolly welcomed David Aufhauser back to the firm. Aufhauser possesses the sort of gilded resume entries that any firm would covet: former general counsel and managing director of banking conglomerate UBS, and a former general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

But Aufhauser has another entry in his biography that makes his return to Williams & Connolly somewhat surprising. Last October he settled charges with New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo that he engaged in insider trading at UBS, agreeing to pay $6.5 million. As part of the settlement, he also agreed not to practice law in the state of New York for two years.

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