Wake Up Call: Brad Karp Resigns From His Alma Mater’s Board

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• Former Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp resigned from Union College’s board of trustees as he faces scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Karp graduated from Union College in 1981. The board chair said in a statement to the campus community that Karp voluntarily resigned. (Business Insider)
• A press freedom organization is urging Virginia’s attorney licensing body to discipline a federal prosecutor who applied for a warrant last month to search the home of a Washington Post reporter. In a letter to the Virginia State Bar, the Freedom of the Press Foundation said prosecutor Gordon Kromberg appeared to have withheld information from the magistrate judge who approved the warrant as part of a leak investigation. (Reuters)
• A judge threw out a court filing submitted by a Wisconsin county district attorney after finding it relied on undisclosed AI and contained made-up legal citations. The judge sanctioned Xavier Solis and struck his written response. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• Exclusive: John Thomas joined Sidley Austin as an energy partner. He joins from Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
• Joseph Yonadi Jr. rejoined BakerHostetler as a partner in its tax practice group and employee benefits and executive compensation team in Cleveland.
• Mark Hamer rejoined Baker McKenzie as a partner in Washington. He joins from the Justice Department.
• Allison Perlman joined Troutman Pepper Locke as a partner in its energy transactional practice group in Los Angeles. She joins from McDermott Will & Emery.
• Mark Riedy joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in its finance, bankruptcy, and restructuring practice group. He joins from Kilpatrick.