When Duane Morris recruited former U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to its white-collar practice in January 2021, firm chairman and CEO Matt Taylor called it a prime example of the firm’s strategic plan to “recruit and attract marquee talent.”

But the firm’s move to add prestige with a high-profile federal prosecutor eyeing a run for the governor’s mansion may have backfired as several colleagues have been alienated by McSwain’s statements about “irregularities” in the 2020 election and criticism of a middle school “Gender-Sexuality Alliance” club in his home town of West Chester.

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