Wake Up Call: Harris Builds Legal Team for Post-Election Period

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• Marc Elias, one of the Democratic Party’s top election lawyers, is joining the Harris-Walz campaign to help counter what is expected to be a contentious post-election period. He joins the campaign’s already expansive legal team, which will oversee hundreds of lawyers defending against what Democrats expect to be an aggressive Republican effort to challenge votes, rules, and election results. (New York Times)
• Morris, Manning & Martin in Atlanta is relocating its headquarters for the first time in nearly 40 years to Two Alliance Center. The firm will be the largest tenant in the building, occupying four floors with rights to expand and will also have its name displayed on the tower. (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
• Snell & Wilmer lawyers Amanda Reeve and Brett Johnson and Alabama attorney Paul Hamrick are identified by the AP as three people working to ensure independent presidential candidate Cornel West is on the Arizona ballot as part of a broader GOP strategy to use West as a Democratic spoiler to benefit Donald Trump. (Associated Press)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Colleen Lee joined Baker McKenzie as a transactional partner in Palo Alto, Calif. She joins from Skadden.
• Chip Cannon joined Hogan Lovells as an energy partner in Washington. He joins from A&O Shearman.
• Ismael Duran joined Paul Hastings as a finance partner. He joins from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
• Kerri Durso joined Paul Weiss as a partner in the finance group within the corporate department in New York.
• Kate Kraus joined Covington & Burling as a tax partner in Los Angeles.
• Lindsay Cooper Hayman joined Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner in the intellectual property litigation group in San Francisco.
• Nicoleta Timofti joined Squire Patton Boggs as an international disputes partner in Geneva. She joins from Curtis Mallet-Prevost.
• David Hirsch joined McGuireWoods in its securities enforcement and regulatory counseling practice as a partner in Washington.
• Ali Olszeski joined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the litigation group.
• Alyssa Simon joined A&O Shearman as a partner in its US debt finance practice in New York.
• Eric Fuglsang rejoined Quarles & Brady as a partner in the firm’s real estate practice group in Chicago.