Judges Start at the Beginning After Leaving Bench for Big Law

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column. I’m Roy Strom, and today we look at how a group of former judges are building their own books of business in Big Law. Sign up to receive this column in your Inbox on Thursday mornings.

Abdul Kallon has a resume that plenty of his partners at Perkins Coie would love to have: He was a federal judge for a dozen years.

But since leaving the bench last year and rejoining private practice, Kallon has found that he needs his partners’ help to succeed at something he’s not done for over ...