A pair of longtime Am Law 100 firm leaders, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’ James Pagliaro and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s R. Bruce McLean, recently retired from their respective firms to make the transition to the world of legal consulting.
Pagliaro, who resigned this month from the partnership at Morgan Lewis in Philadelphia, previously served as head of the firm’s product liability and mass tort litigation group, as well as its managing partner for client relations. This month he joined Bernero & Press, a legal consulting firm formed a year ago by Wendy Bernero, a former executive at a handful of Am Law 100 firms, and Aric Press, a former editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer and parent company ALM who retired last year.
