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 Times)
• Wiggin and Dana has launched a service to provide outsourced general counsel services to fledgling businesses. The service offers “a full suite of what we call ‘general counsel-type services,’” said Wiggin partner Jack Sousa. “To a company, you get maybe less cost, but also more people.” (Hartford Business Journal)
• Organizers of the Legalweek legal tech conference in New York are facing allegations that this year’s conference was rife with harassment of female attendees. Claims on LinkedIn from Deloitte vice president Deeanna Fleener that 20 of 29 women she heard from had been harassed or assaulted prompted organizers with ALM to respond that they “vehemently” condemned instances of harassment and support “meaningful, positive change” in the legal tech community. (Global Legal Post)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Shearman & Sterling leveraged finance duo have joined DLA Piper in New York City.
• Milton “Skip” Smith has joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder with the government contracts practice in Denver, Colo. He joins from Sherman & Howard.
• Stuart Delery has returned to Gibson Dunn to serve as a partner and co-chair of the crisis management practice group and administrative law and regulatory practice group in Washington, D.C.
• Colin Diamond has joined Paul Hastings as a partner in New York and co-chair of global capital markets. He previously served as chair of the public company advisory group and senior capital markets leader at White & Case.
• Eric W. Leonard has joined Cozen O’Connor as a shareholder and co-chair of the government contracts practice in Washington, D.C. He joins from Wiley Rein.
• Amy S. Mushahwar has joined Lowenstein Sandler as a partner and chair of the data, privacy, and cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C.
• Eric Pruitt has joined Quarles & Brady as a partner with the litigation and dispute resolution practice group in Chicago.
• Jennifer Solari has joined BakerHostetler as a partner in its national litigation practice group in Atlanta.
• Anthony Tama has joined White & Case as a partner with the global capital markets practice and global financial institutions industry group in London. He joins from Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
• Adam C. Witt has joined Stoel Rives as a partner in the real estate practice group in San Diego, Calif. He joins from Finch Thornton & Baird.
• Audrey F. Momanaee has joined Blank Rome as a partner in the commercial litigation group in the Houston office. joins from Balch & Bingham.
• Edward Ulloa has joined Morgan Lewis in Los Angeles.
• Claudia Wilson Frost has joined Steptoe LLP as a partner in the Houston office.
• Kimberly Branscome has joined Paul Weiss as a partner with the litigation department in Los Angeles.
• William Gorrod has rejoined Morgan Lewis as a partner in San Francisco. He joins from Baker Botts.