After 41 years at Kirkland & Ellis, James Schink left the firm’s Chicago office in December for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Just six months later, however, Schink has quietly returned to his longtime home, which this week saw two other litigators decamp for Latham & Watkins.
Latham, the nation’s largest firm by gross revenue, a title it took by beating out Kirkland, has landed a litigation quartet in New York led by Kirkland partners Joseph Serino and Eric Leon and associates Kuangyan Huang and Nate Taylor. The new recruits are part of a move by Latham to expand its litigation offering to a global client base.
