Wake Up Call: Hogan, Others Bill Kansas Millions in NCAA Probe

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

• Pillsbury, Hogan Lovells, Husch Blackwell, and Bond, Schoeneck & King collectively raked in about $10 million over the last several years defending University of Kansas basketball and football programs over alleged NCAA infractions. Pillsbury partner William Sullivan, Jr. billed the state school more than $775,500, at as much as $1,000 per hour. (Topeka Capital-Journal)
• Paul Feldberg has left Jenner & Block to join Brown Rudnick in London, to head the firm’s UK white collar defence, investigations and compliance practice. The move continues a recent pattern of senior lateral hires into Brown Rudnick’s Lodnon office, as well as the firm’s recent poach of DC white collar partner Steven Tyrrell from Weil Gotshal. (Global Legal Post)
• Stradley Ronon has elected Michael O’Mara as its new managing partner, a promotion made effective Jan. 11. O’Mara is the former chair of the firm’s 70-lawyer litigation department. (Stradley Ronon)
• Charles Noonan, a former Gibson Dunn associate in London, is a contestant in the Australian version of the long-running reality TV hit “Survivor,” called “Australian Survivor: Titans v. Rebels.” A lot of people don’t like lawyers, says Noonan, now a special counsel at Australia’s Maurice Blackburn, until a lawyer saves their, er, bacon. Then, “that lawyer is their favourite person in the whole wide world and that person will be me out here.” (Survivor Wiki)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Brian P. Waldman has been named firmwide managing partner of ArentFox Schiff.
• Michael Li-Ming Wong has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner in the litigation department and as co-chair of its national white collar defense group. He most recently served as a partner at Gibson Dunn.
• William F. Dolan has joined FisherBroyles as a partner in the litigation practice in Chicago. He previously practiced at Jones Day.
• Paolo Zamberletti has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in the corporate practice group in Milan. He joins from K&L Gates.
• Stacey Sublett Halliday has joined Arnold & Porter as a partner in the environmental practice in Washington, D.C.
• Dan Roland has rejoined Finnegan LLP as a partner. He joins from the Justice Department.
• Rory Leraris has joined Davis Polk as a partner in the civil litigation practice in New York. She joins from Cravath Swaine & Moore.
• Nicolas Capelli has joined Kramer Levin as a partner with the asset management and investment funds team.
• Dana L. Burch has joined Gordon Rees as a partner with the employment law and labor practice groups in San Francisco.
• Harry Park has joined McCarter & English as a partner with the intellectual property practice group in Washington, D.C.
• David Makso has joined Foley & Lardner as a partner in its taxation practice group in New York. He joins from Paul Hastings.
• Martin Florman has joined Haynes and Boone as an M&A, venture capital, and corporate partner in the Orange County, Calif. He joins from Buchalter.
• Cameron Mitcham has joined Fried Frank as a partner in the finance practice in London.