Wake Up Call: King & Spalding Hires Former UK Public Prosecutor

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• King & Spalding has hired Max Hill KC, the former director of public prosecutions for England and Wales, to work out of the firm’s London office, as just the latest in a string of British prosecutors opting to join Big Law firms. Hill’s predecessor, Alison Saunders, joined Linklaters, and David Green, former director of the UK serious fruad office, was hired by Slaughter and May in 2018 and is now at Cohen & Gresser. (Financial ...