Wake Up Call: DOJ Faces ‘Wrenching’ Decision in Boeing Probe

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

• DOJ prosecutors face a “wrenching” decision about whether they should prosecute Boeing Co. over charges that the aerospace giant committed fraud conspiracy in connection with 2018 and 2019 crashes. The case is “so sensitive” that Attorney General Merrick Garland has personally edited some of the agency’s court briefs. (Wall Street Journal)
• “White-show” law firms like Latham & Watkins; Paul, Weiss; Ropes & Gray; and Cravath, Swaine & Moore are losing “hundreds of millions” in potential fees because of media heiress Shari Redstone’s last-minute decision not to merge Paramount with Skydance Media. Latham alone had as many as 100 lawyers advising Skydance on the combination. (New York Post)
• Paul, Weiss has brought on former Google senior lawyer Ludovic Ghesquiere “in the latest iteration of its expansion plan.” The move recruit Ghesquiere, who will split his time between London and California as an antitrust partner, comes as the firm has been “building out” its overseas footprint, including by poaching from competitors and bulking up in London and Brussels. (Law.com)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Leonora Shalet has joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a global private investment funds partner in New York. She joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel.
• Victoria “Tory” Lauterbach has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner and member of the energy, regulation and litigation practice group in the firm’s Washington office.
• Adam Safwat has joined Foley Hoag as a partner in the firm’s white collar crime and government investigations practice in Washington. He joins from Nelson Mullins.
• Duncan Hubbard has joined Greenberg Traurig as an international finance shareholder in its London office. He joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
• Jaclyn Rabin has joined Cooley’s global fund formation practice group as a partner in the New York office.
• Richard Lyons has joined McCarter & English as a partner in its real estate and cannabis practices in the firm’s New York and Newark, New Jersey offices.
• Jonathan Wachs joins Dickinson Wright as a member of its intellectual property and cannabis practices in Washington.
• Trey McDonald and James McFall have joined Foley & Lardner as litigation and business law partners in Houston and Dallas respectively.
• Todd Jaworsky and Jane Young have joined Wilson Elser as insurance coverage and defense litigation partners in the firm’s Denver office.