(top row, left to right) Andrew Glenn, Andre Bouchard, Heather Nyong'o, Rosemarie Ring, and Luis Li..(bottom row, left to right) Nader Salehi, Natasha Harrison, Andrew Tulumello, Yas Banifatemi, and Boris Bronfentrinker. Courtesy photos The Litigators Who Made Am Law's List of the Top Big Law Lateral Hires of 2021
In a year where transactional practices got a lot of the shine in large law firms, full-time litigators made up 40% of the magazine's top 25 lateral hires of 2021. Another couple of lawyers who spend part of their time on litigation also made the list.
January 26, 2022 at 07:30 AM
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Analysis
Our friends at The American Lawyer revealed their list of the top lateral hires in Big Law from last year in an online feature that went live yesterday. In a year where transactional lawyers got a lot of shine in Big Law, we counted an impressive group of 10 litigation hires that made the list of 25 moves Am Law says "left the biggest imprint on the industry in 2021."
To have such a large chunk of the list made up of litigators is all the more impressive when you consider that tally doesn't even include a couple of moves involving lawyers with dockets that include a mix of compliance and litigation work. Namely, Ian Conner, the former Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition director joined Latham & Watkins rather than returning to his prior law firm home at Kirkland & Ellis, and Marc Elias, the former Perkins Coie partner and election law expert known for his work on behalf of the Democratic Party, formed a new boutique, Elias Law Group, with 10 other Perkins Coie partners and three counsel.
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Law Firms Mentioned
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Sidley Austin
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Munger, Tolles & Olson
- Perkins Coie
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Kasowitz Benson Torres
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
- Boies Schiller Flexner
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
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Who Got The Work
J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
Who Got The Work
Rebecca Maller-Stein and Kent A. Yalowitz of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer have entered their appearances for Hanaco Venture Capital and its executives, Lior Prosor and David Frankel, in a pending securities lawsuit. The action, filed on Dec. 24 in New York Southern District Court by Zell, Aron & Co. on behalf of Goldeneye Advisors, accuses the defendants of negligently and fraudulently managing the plaintiff's $1 million investment. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, is 1:24-cv-09918, Goldeneye Advisors, LLC v. Hanaco Venture Capital, Ltd. et al.
Who Got The Work
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.
Who Got The Work
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.
Who Got The Work
Wilfred P. Coronato and Daniel M. Schwartz of McCarter & English have stepped in as defense counsel to Electrolux Home Products Inc. in a pending product liability lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 26 in New York Eastern District Court by Poulos Lopiccolo PC and Nagel Rice LLP on behalf of David Stern, alleges that the defendant's refrigerators’ drawers and shelving repeatedly break and fall apart within months after purchase. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack, is 2:24-cv-08204, Stern v. Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
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