Wake Up Call: Ivanka Trump Hires Troutman Attorney in Fraud Case

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

• Ivanka Trump hired Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders partner Bennet Moskowitz, who once represented the Jeffrey Epstein estate, to represent only her in New York’s $250 million tax fraud case against her family. She’s no longer represented in the case by two attorneys who continue to represent her brothers. Attorneys Reid Figel and Michael Kellogg of Kellogg Hansen, who had been representing Ivanka Trump separately, also withdrew from the case, this report said. (Forbes)
• Legal artificial intelligence startup Harvey said it has raised $21 million in a new fundraising led by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and joined by OpenAI Startup Fund, Conviction, SV Angel and Elad Gil. (Harvey.ai) After Allen & Overy earlier this year announced it was using the chatbot tool, which is based on GPT-4 technology developed by OpenAi, PricewaterhouseCoopers introduced the service in March. Sequoia said more than 15,000 law firms are on a waiting list to use the tech. (Sequoiacap.com)
• Longtime Boies Schiller Flexner antitrust partner Matthew Tripolitsiotis jumped to Dallas, Texas-based boutique Burns Charest. He’ll practice from New York City. (BurnsCharest.com)

Lawyers, Law Firms

• Fox Rothschild announced it’s merging with North Carolina family formation and adoption boutique Dempsey Law Group, getting that firm’s founder and leader Kelly Dempsey in Charlotte and counsel Nicole Skellenger in West Palm Beach, Florida. (FoxRothschild.com)
• A change to UK tax rules could be expensive for most of the country’s biggest law firms, which use a date other than March 31 to close their fiscal year. (The London Times)
• The European Court of Justice said it will review a German law that bans third-party ownership of law firms. Global Legal Post)
• Chinese police questioned employees in the Shanghai office of Bain & Company, the US management consulting firm. Authorities in the country last month raided the Beijing office of US due diligence firm Mintz Group and detained five local staff. (Financial Times)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Hinshaw & Culbertson added two insurance and employee benefits litigators, former Big Law attorney Warren von Schleicher and trial veteran Jacqueline Herring, as partners in Chicago, effective May 8. They were previously at Smith, von Schleicher & Associates, where Warren von Schleicher was a founder and managing partner. (HinshawLaw.com)
• Dykema Gossett added former New York federal prosecutor Jennifer Beidel as a criminal defense litigation partner in its Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, office. She arrives recently from Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Philadelphia office, where she was co-chair of the white collar and government enforcement practice. (Dykema.com)
• McCarter & English hired Hinshaw’s Miami-based products and commercial litigator Ira Gonzalez as a partner and to help build the firm’s office in the area. At Hinshaw, Gonzalez was partner and co-leader of the Latin America team. (McCarterEnglish.com)
• A German report said Reed Smith hired longtime McDermott Will & Emery corporate partners Nikolaus von Jacobs and Christian von Sydow in Munich, to join in May. (Juve.de)
• Chinese firm Han Kun said it grabbed Sidley Austin energy M&A attorneys Tao Lan and Gloria Wang in Beijing. (HanKunLaw.com)
• San Diego-based real estate and finance attorney David Crawford joined Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch as a partner from Cooley LLP. (Procopio.com)
• Precision Medicine Group, provider of drug development and commercialization services, hired veteran pharmaceutical industry in-house leader Stacey Hanna as general counsel, and chief compliance officer in New York. She’s a former Pfizer Inc. corporate counsel, was corporate lawyer at two Big Law firms, and arrives recently from Lonza, a Swiss pharmaceutical and biotech multinational. (Precisionmedicinegrp.com)

Promotions

• UK elite firm Clifford Chance promoted 32 attorneys across its offices worldwide. (Clifford Chance)