Following last week’s election, plenty of Obama administration lawyers are looking for somewhere to land after stints in public service, while some big firm lawyers are angling for spots in a Trump administration. But William Weld is charting a different course—leaving the campaign trail as the Libertarian Party ticket’s number two and returning to his old firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo.
A former Republican governor of Massachusetts who served as running mate to 2016 Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, Weld is now back at Mintz Levin in Boston, a firm spokeswoman confirmed this week. He returns to his role as a partner at the firm and principal with Mintz Levin’s government relations arm, ML Strategies, after more than five months on the campaign trail.
