Brian Michael, who spent the past five years as deputy general counsel at 21st Century Fox Inc., has returned to private practice by joining King & Spalding as a partner in the firm’s special matters and government investigations group in Los Angeles.
A former lawyer at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Michael left the firm in late 2012 to go in-house at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., a media conglomerate that would eventually separate into two different companies. Michael’s now former employer, New York-based 21st Century Fox, controls Murdoch’s broadcast, cable, digital and sports media business operations.
