Wake Up Call: Latham & Watkins’ New Chief Is London Partner

• Latham & Watkins said London-based Richard Trobman has been elected its new chairman and managing partner, the firm’s second global chief from that city. Trobman, a top capital markets lawyer who relocated to London from New York in 2000, had been serving as the firm’s co-interim chair after Bill Voge, the firm’s first London-based leader, left abruptly after a scandal involving “communications of a sexual nature” with a woman. ( The Lawyer ) ( LW.com )

• The Trump Administration has been hostile toward the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its mission and, consequently, CFPB-related work at several major firms has seriously slowed, leading to lawyer exits. Firms affected include Ballard Spahr, Davis Wright Tremaine, and Buckley Sandler. ( American Lawyer )

• Visa Inc. hired Boies Schiller equity partner Alanna Rutherford as vice president of global litigation. Rutherford, a Columbia University Law grad and corporate attorney, once had the distinction of being Boies Schiller’s only African-American equity partner. She has been at the firm 17 years. ( American Lawyer )

• Starbucks is looking for a replacement for its deputy general counsel and chief ethics and compliance officer, Matthew Swaya, who left the company in early June after 21 years. The company’s general counsel, Rachel Gonzalez, has temporarily added Swaya’s job responsibilities to her workload, the company said. ( Corporate Counsel )

• Baker McKenzie hired David Cambria as its first global director of legal operations. He joins from Archer Daniels Midland Company, one of the world’s largest agricultural processors and ingredient providers. ( BakerMcKenzie )

• Former Hunton & Williams litigation partner Scott Wolas pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors in Massachusetts to wire fraud, identity theft, and other federal charges stemming from a $1.7 million real estate fraud. ( The Patriot Ledger )

• German prosecutors investigating tax evasion are looking into the roles of dozens of the world’s top banks, brokerages, accounting companies, and law firms in deals said to cost the German treasury billions of euros. ( Bloomberg )

• Google’s new chief of policy, attorney Karan Bhatia, was a top trade official in President George W. Bush’s administration and spent seven years as a partner at the Big Law firm known today as WilmerHale. Bhatia moved from General Electric, where he was the company’s leader of policy and, before that, senior counsel. ( Bloomberg ) ( Linkedin )

• Legal technology company Everlaw Inc. got a $25 million investment from Menlo Ventures. The cash infusion adds to its list of high-profile investors that already included Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general of the U.S., and Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. ( Bloomberg Law via BLB )

Supreme Court

• President Trump spent Saturday weighing the backgrounds of top prospects to fill an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court but hasn’t begun interviews with finalists. Trump said Friday he’d narrowed his search to a list of five, including two women, and will announce his pick on July 9. ( Bloomberg )

• Liberals are distraught about Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s recently announced retirement but the numbers show this SCOTUS term was rough on them even with Kennedy on the court. ( Bloomberg Law via BLB )

• But those on the left should be less despondent--and conservatives less giddy--about Kennedy’s retirement. ( Above the Law )

• Senators should grill Trump’s nominee with tough questions about data privacy, one Democratic senator said. But not until after the November elections. ( Bloomberg Law via BLB )

Lawyers and Law Firms

• Charles Rettig, a tax lawyer and Trump’s pick to lead the IRS, told lawmakers he’d never represented a client who has been under a continuous agency audit for a decade. That’s the case with the president and Rettig said he doesn’t know any details of the review. ( Bloomberg )

• South Carolina’s Supreme Court suspended a lawyer from practice for his role in an IPO Ponzi scheme involving the use of Facebook and other social media companies. ( Bloomberg Law via BLB )

Laterals, Moves

• Three IP attorneys left Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer to join Paul Hastings: Robert Laurenzi as of counsel in New York; Michelle Marek Figueiredo as a senior associate in Chicago; and Marisa Williams as a senior associate in San Francisco. And more recent moves and news from prominent intellectual property law firms and other IP-related organizations ( Bloomberg Law via BLB )

Legal Market

• Recreational marijuana sales became legal across Massachusetts yesterday, giving Boston a new green monster. ( Bloomberg )

Compiled by Rick Mitchell and edited by Tom Taylor.