Bingham McCutchen, an 800-lawyer Am Law 100 firm reportedly mulling merger talks with potential suitors, saw two tax partners in Washington, D.C., recently leave the firm for in-house positions.
HARTMAN BLANCHARD JR., a federal tax litigator, left Bingham on July 25 to become head of U.S. federal tax controversy at Morgan Stanley in the Beltway. BRADFORD WHITEHURST, who specializes in tax planning and partnership taxation, departed Bingham on July 31 to join Dallas-based Energy Transfer Equity as executive vice president and head of tax. Both companies have been Bingham clients.
