Partners Exit Willkie Farr After Trump Deal: The Brief

IN THE LATEST round of departures from firms that cut deals with President Donald Trump, seven partners left Willkie Farr & Gallagher to join Cooley’s litigation department in San Francisco, Tatyana Monnay reports.

• In contrast to Willkie, Cooley lawyers including Michael Attanasio have been representing Jenner & Block in that firm’s successful effort to permanently strike down a Trump executive order as unconstitutional.
• The seven departing partners are Simona Agnolucci, Ben Hur, Joshua Anderson, Tiffany Lin, Jonathan Patchen, Michael Rome and Eduardo Santacana, according to a Cooley statement. Agnolucci and Hur led Willkie’s San Francisco office and Agnolucci was a ...