Wake Up Call: Fired Justice Department Lawyers Find New Path

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

• A group of former Justice Department prosecutors who prosecuted Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases have rebuilt their careers in Virginia after being abruptly fired by the Trump administration. Monika Isia Jasiewicz and several colleagues lost their jobs—along with their pending prosecutions—within days of Trump’s inauguration, but Arlington County’s commonwealth attorney hired several of them amid a hostile legal job market. (NPR)
• Larry J. Hoffman, one of three co-founders of Greenberg Traurig, died at 95. Hoffman, together with Mel Greenberg and Robert H. Traurig, founded the firm in Miami in 1967 and oversaw its growth to become a global law firm. Today it employs more than 2,850 lawyers in 49 locations on four continents. (South Florida Business Journal)
• Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is getting ready to sign a massive deal at a new office skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. The firm is set to lease roughly 700,000 square feet at Extell Development’s office development at 570 Fifth Avenue. (Commercial Observer)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• James Curley joined Paul Hastings as a partner in its private equity practice in Boston. He joins from Goodwin Procter.
• Kenneth Parker joined Taft Stettinius & Hollister as a partner in its compliance, investigations, and white collar defense and commercial litigation practices in Cincinnati. He was previously the US Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.