Latham Adds Former White House Deputy Counsel in NY

Latham & Watkins announced Monday that Nick McQuaid, who spent more than four years in the White House Counsel’s office under President Obama, is joining in New York as a white collar attorney.

At the firm, McQuaid will be reunited with Kathyrn Ruemmler, now global co-chair of Latham’s White Collar practice and who was White House Counsel in 2013 when he joined that office.

He adds to a growing list of partners joining the firm in New York,including four lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis last week, as it looks to grow out its litigation and trial department. It also ...