The rhythms of university life beckoned to a pair of Big Law veterans on either coast this summer, with partners departing Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for academic positions.
“I was interested in returning to some form of public service,” said David Turetsky, who had been co-head of the cybersecurity, privacy and data practice at Akin Gump in Washington, D.C. He left the firm to start next month as a visiting assistant professor for emergency preparedness at the State University of New York at Albany.
