Wake Up Call: Ex-Mayer Brown Partner Lori Lightfoot Elected Chicago Mayor

• Chicago’s new African-American mayor-elect, Lori Lightfoot, is a former federal prosecutor and ex-Mayer Brown partner. She’s the city’s first black woman mayor, and the first openly gay person to have that job. Among other things, she has proposed a tax on Big Law firms to close the city’s big budget hole. (BN) (New York Times) (Chicago Sun Times)

• The University of Southern California’s general counsel, Carol Mauch Amir, is among top officials leaving the university in the wake of its response to scandals that include the current federal investigation into college admissions. (L.A. Times)

• A new report by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission accuses Wynn Resort’s former in-house and outside lawyers, some from Big Law firms, of helping to conceal sexual assault claims against the casino giant’s founder, Steve Wynn. (American Lawyer)

• DLA Piper said it hired corporate lawyer Douglas Boggs as a partner in Washington. Doug Boggs, the son of the late Washington lobbyist Tommy Boggs Jr., whose name still figures on Washington firm Squire Patton Boggs, was recently at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where he was Washington managing partner, and served as its Africa & MENA Practice co-chair. His brother Hale Boggs, left Manatt for O’Melveny in November. (DLAPiper.com)

• Many Baby Boomer lawyers aren’t looking to leave their practices anytime soon. That has some law firms grappling with whether to impose a mandatory retirement age. (BLAW via BLB)

• Legal technology and related new law companies attracted about $1 billion in investments in 2018, and the money looks likely to keep flowing this year, according to a report by investment bank Investec. (Artificial Lawyer)

• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Stephen Payne, who heads the firm’s Food and Drug Administration and health care practice group, is leaving to serve as dean of Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, starting July 1. (National Law Journal)

• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison was No. 1 in a recent ranking of Big Law firms by their percentage of black lawyers. A few months ago the firm was taking a beating on social media over an all-white partnership promotion photo. (ABA Journal)

• Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp.'s top lawyer Corena Norris-McCluney returned to Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in its Winston-Salem office, as counsel in the firm’s labor and employment team. (DailyReport.com)

Lawyers, Law Firms

• Hunton Andrews Kurth posted revenue of $748 million for 2018, which is about what leaders of Texas firm Andrews Kurth Keynon and Virginia firm Hunton & Williams expected when the two firms merged last year. (Texas Lawyer)

• Uber Health hired a new legal director: longtime McKesson Corp. in-house lawyer Lamis Hossain, who also previously worked at The Coca-Cola Co. and Cox Interactive Media Inc., according to a report. (Corporate Counsel)

• A senior lawyer in the U.S. House of Representatives general counsel’s office, associate GC Kimberly Hamm, is leaving as the Democratic majority gears up for probes into President Donald Trump and his administration, and related subpoena fights. Hamm, a former litigation counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett who joined the House legal team in 2014, is joining the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an adviser to Chairman Jay Clayton, according to one report. (National Law Journal)

• A former Perkins Coie legal secretary’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against the firm as part of her job discrimination suit in Manhattan federal court cannot remain sealed, a judge ruled. (New York Law Journal)

• JAMS, the alternative dispute resolution services provider, said it opened a new resolution center in St. Louis, and it will be joined by retired judges Douglas R. Beach and Michael J. Reagan, and attorney Bradley Winters. (JAMSadr.com)

• Deals Milbank said it advised healthcare services company Molina Healthcare, Inc. on an agreement with digital services company Infosys, which among other things calls for Infosys to oversee Molina’s IT operations, end-user services, and data centers. (Milbank.com)

Laterals, Moves, Promotions

• Cooley said Hogan Lovells international tax veteran Jeffrey Tolin joined the firm as a partner in New York. Tolin began his legal career at Chadbourne & Parke. (Cooley.com)

• Winston & Strawn added project finance partner Jason Goldstein as a partner in its New York office, getting him from DLA Piper. (Winston.com)

• Carlton Fields said litigator Robin H. Leavengood, who began her career at the firm in 2002 and left in 2004, is rejoining its construction practice, based in Tampa. (CarltonFields.com)

• Mayer Brown added two partners to its corporate & securities practice. It hired former Paul Hastings fund formation lawyer Tram Nguyen for its Washington and New York offices. (MayerBrown.com) And corporate insurance lawyer Sheng Wu joined the firm in Hong Kong. (MayerBrown.com)

• Eversheds Sutherland said veteran tax lawyer Eric J. Coffill rejoined the firm as a senior counsel in its state and local tax practice in Sacramento, California. He was most recently at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and previously was managing partner of Morrison & Foerster’s Sacramento office. (US.Eversheds-Sutherland.com)

• Greenspoon Marder said litigator Germain D. Labat joined the firm’s L.A, office as a partner from Vedder Price, where he was a shareholder and head of its L.A. litigation group. (GMLaw.com) In Boca Raton, Florida, Greenspoon Marder said attorney Lauren A. Galvani joined the firm’s wills, trusts & estates practice as a partner. (GMLaw.com)

• Vedder Price’s Chicago office added bankruptcy shareholder David Kane, who, among other roles, was previously co-chair of the bankruptcy group at Meltzer Purtill & Stelle. (VedderPrice.com)

• Dykema said litigator Thomas H. Hutchinson re-joined the firm as a senior counsel in L.A., arriving from Veatch Carlson. (Dykema)

• Levenfeld Pearlstein hired veteran banking and restructuring lawyer Harold D. Israel as a partner in Chicago. (LPLegal.com)

• Hunton Andrews Kurth promoted 11 lawyers, including three women, to partner. (HuntonAK.com)