Wilmer’s Corporate Practice Vice Chair Decamps for VC Firm (Corrected)

After two decades in private practice, Peter Buckland is looking for the next big thing.

And if he finds it, the veteran Silicon Valley lawyer will reap more than he ever could billing by the hour. Buckland, a vice chair of the corporate practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and co-chair of the firm’s emerging company practice, recently put Big Law behind him to become a general partner and COO at Khosla Ventures, the venture capital firm controlled by billionaire investor Vinod Khosla.

“I had as good of a gig at Wilmer as you can have at a ...