By Jenna Greene | September 5, 2017
August is a month for going to the beach, not joining a new law firm. Lateral moves slowed to a lazy crawl, but still, a handful of notable litigators started new gigs. Here are 10 that caught our eye.
By Roy Strom and James Booth | September 5, 2017
Traci Ribeiro, who settled a gender bias case against Sedgwick earlier this year, has found a new home. Meanwhile, other lawyers have left the firm in New York and Florida.
By Rebecca Cohen | September 5, 2017
Joshua Morse, who joined Jones Day five years ago from now-defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf, is headed to DLA Piper in the Bay Area.
By Brian Baxter | September 5, 2017
Baker Botts, DLA Piper and White & Case are advising on the record-setting $2.2 billion sale of the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets from former lawyer Leslie Alexander to casino and hospitality billionaire Tilman Fertitta.
By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | September 5, 2017
Fowler White Burnett has lured two new shareholders to its South Florida offices, one of them from struggling Am Law 200 firm Sedgwick, which has seen offices close and more than 30 lawyers defect across the country this year.
By Katelyn Polantz | September 5, 2017
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 | September 5, 2017
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 | September 5, 2017
Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law hires and other Washington, D.C., legal industry news.
By Mike Scarcella | September 4, 2017
The Trump administration is moving forward with a spate of new nominees for the U.S. Justice Department and regulatory agencies, pulling lawyers from Big Law and in-house legal departments for top positions.
By Mike Scarcella and Cheryl Miller | September 1, 2017
From one U.S. attorney general to another, Eric Holder Jr. recently offered Jeff Sessions some leadership advice. Holder's observations were not solicited. "I urge you not to force them to further defend the indefensible—the president's inhumane and unjust executive orders," the Covington & Burling partner wrote to Sessions. Holder's letter, written on behalf of the California Senate, was attached to an amicus brief California lawmakers filed in support of Chicago's challenge to Trump administration immigration policies.
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