Wake Up Call: Edelson Pulls Out of Harvard Law Recruiting Event

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• Plaintiffs’ firm Edelson PC says it’s exiting future Harvard Law School recruiting events in protest of Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s congressional testimony on campus antisemitism. The firm will skip Harvard’s on-campus event in August, in which Edelson and many Big Law firms hire a number of their summer associates. (Reuters)
• U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco, a former antitrust specialist with Cooley and Shearman & Sterling, could alter Google’s app business. Donato is set to decide what changes Alphabet’s Google Play store needs to make after a jury found that Google illegally barred other app stores. (Reuters)
• The legal artificial intelligence startup “Harvey,” which makes AI-powered legal software, is in discussions to raise as much as $80 million in a venture capital round that would value the company at $700 million. Venture firm Kleiner Perkins and investor Elad Gil are set to co-lead the round. (The Information)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Juge Gregg has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the environment and natural resources practice group. He served as senior corporate counsel on the sustainability legal team for Amazon.
• Jon Gurka has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the intellectual property department. Gurka served as a partner at Knobbe Martens.
• Robert C. Seiger has joined Fox Rothschild as a partner with the labor and employment department in Philadelphia. He practiced at Archer & Greiner.
• Scott Moresco in Nashville has been named managing director within the tax practice of Alvarez & Marsal. He practiced as a partner with KPMG’s mergers and acquisitions tax practice in Chicago.