Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner Robert Bennett is leaving the firm to join Hogan & Hartson, reports The Am Law Daily.

Bennett, who was co-leader of both the international government enforcement litigation group and the criminal and civil litigation practice in Skadden's Washington DC office, will join Hogan along with fellow defence litigator Carl Rauh. The pair had been at Skadden since 1990.

High-profile clients of Bennett's include former president Bill Clinton, Senator John McCain, New York Times reporter Judith Miller and former World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz.