Wake Up Call: Hour Targets in Big Firms’ Bonus Memos Get Boos (Corrected)

In today’s column, Wachtell, Morrison & Foerster, Latham, and Goodwin are advising in Salesforce.com Inc. $27.7 billion deal to buy Slack Technologies Inc.; a former U.S. cybersecurity official suggested he might sue the Trump lawyer who called for him to be “shot”; in-house counsel in a recent survey say they’re don’t benefit from their law firms’ legal tech innovation efforts.

• Leading off, Paul Hastings, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and Davis, Polk & Wardwell on Tuesday joined the parade of firms that in the last week have matched Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s standard for two-part year-end bonuses, which go up to ...