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Mike Scarcella is a senior editor in Washington on ALM Media's regulatory desk. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter: @MikeScarcella. Mike works on a slate of newsletters: Supreme Court Brief | Higher Law | Compliance Hot Spots | Labor of Law.
May 30, 2020 | The Recorder
A team from King & Spalding, including former partner and now FBI Director Christopher Wray, provided legal services to WhatsApp in a sealed matter four years ago. WhatsApp's counsel at Cooley says the firm acquired confidential information relevant to a pending case where King & Spalding represents a WhatsApp adversary.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
May 4, 2020 | National Law Journal
Davis Polk's contract came with a supplement that confronted issues involving conflicts of interest—any situation where the firm might continue to represent, or pick up a new client, with interests adverse to the U.S. Treasury Department.
By C. Ryan Barber | Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
April 18, 2020 | National Law Journal
King & Spalding withdrew an attorney fee request after a Washington trial judge said the firm would need to reveal hourly rates and other records. The U.S. Justice Department is opposing the firm's push for an order requiring the government to destroy or return the disputed billing records.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
December 30, 2019 | National Law Journal
Biden's newly disclosed list of campaign bundlers includes Big Law chairmen, practice group leaders, prominent trial lawyers and tech and finance executives. The list of 250 names revealed the individuals and couples who have raised at least $25,000 for his presidential run.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
December 26, 2019 | National Law Journal
A collection of our 2019 reporting on financial disclosures from Big Law partners who left such firms as Quinn Emanuel; King & Spalding; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Milbank; Kirkland & Ellis; and Sullivan & Cromwell.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
December 3, 2019 | National Law Journal
"Amici submit this brief, some at immeasurable personal and professional cost, for the countless others who may not have the tools to navigate the legal system," a team from Paul Weiss said in a friend-of-the-court filing on behalf of 368 female lawyers and law students.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
November 23, 2019 | National Law Journal
The Gibson Dunn team includes veteran Supreme Court advocate Ted Olson and Theodore Boutrous Jr., whose First Amendment media advocacy has pit him against the Trump administration. Morrison & Foerster's Kevin Mullen is counsel of record for Amazon.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
November 22, 2019 | National Law Journal
Major Lindsey sued rival MLegal in Washington's federal trial court, alleging a former partner's move had violated provisions of a noncompete.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
November 1, 2019 | National Law Journal
The legal recruiter Major, Lindsey & Africa is suing former partner Lauren Drake for an alleged noncompete violation after she joined rival MLegal in October. Major Lindsey's lawyers refute the contention, raised by Drake's lawyer, that the firm tolerated office misconduct. MLegal hired away Jane Sullivan Roberts this year from Major Lindsey to help launch a Washington outpost.
By Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
October 15, 2019 | National Law Journal
The progressive group Demand Justice is pitching a list of 32 civil rights leaders, academics, litigators and state and federal judges as would-be U.S. Supreme Court justices for any next Democratic president.
By Mike Scarcella
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