Amid the uproar and spate of suits over a new North Carolina law requiring people to use bathrooms based on the sex listed on their birth certificates, several high-powered Am Law 100 litigators have landed notable roles in the fallout from the legislation.

On Friday, the University of North Carolina announced its retention of Jones Day and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr to advising the academic institution in a federal civil rights suit contesting the controversial bathroom law.