Wake Up Call: Delta Hires Boies for CrowdStrike, Microsoft Fight

Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.

• David Boies has been hired by Delta Air Lines to go after CrowdStrike and Microsoft Corp. for damages stemming from the recent IT outage. The tech failure caused millions of Microsoft Windows devices to crash and led to widespread flight cancellations. (CNBC)
• The death of a partner at Pinsent Masons has prompted widespread discussion in the industry about corporate culture and whether high starting salaries are worth the stress placed on recruits. LawCare, a legal mental health charity, said it saw a 14% rise in people requesting support last year, with a significant number saying they had suffered workplace bullying. (The Guardian)
• Burns & Levinson remains in merger talks after nearly half of the firm’s attorneys recently departed. The firm is unlikely to attract an Am Law 200 merger partner in its current form, but could still merge with a firm that’s looking to enter the Boston market. (AmLaw)
• Three former employees of Seton Hall Law School have pleaded guilty to a $1.3 million scheme to defraud the New Jersey university. The trio admitted to a scam that included asking vendors to pay them directly, purchasing hundreds of thousands dollars worth of gift cards and forming a shell company to bill the university for services never rendered. (NJ.com)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• Alexander Klett, Sebastian Dexheimer, and Christoph Mikyska have joined Morgan Lewis in Germany as partners. Klett joins from Reed Smith.
• Christopher Healey joined Davis Polk & Wardwell as a registered funds partner. He joins from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
• Peter Meyer rejoined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the product liability and mass torts group in Indianapolis. He joins from Exactech.
• James English joined Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner as a member of the firm’s energy transition team. He joins from Clark Hill.
• Garrett Reuter, Jr. joined Husch Blackwell as a partner in its financial services and capital markets industry group and as a member of its private wealth team in its St. Louis office.
• David Cayce joined Bradley as a partner in the economic development and renewable energy practice group in Atlanta.
• Hathaway Pease Russell was promoted to managing partner at Foley Hoag.
• Javier Lopez joined Vedder Price as a shareholder in Miami. He joins from Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton.