Wake Up Call: Law Schools Risk Free-Speech Rule After Protests

Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of legal industry moves and other news.

• American Bar Association panelists Friday will consider requiring law schools to have written policies encouraging free speech. Critics have faulted schools including Stanford and Yale for how they handled protests of conservative speakers. (Reuters)
• Selendy Gay Elsberg founding partner Faith Gay detailed New York City missteps in handling the arrival of more than 100,000 migrants. The city failed to accept assistance offers and was slow to act, Gay said in a letter on behalf of Governor Kathy Hochul. (New York Times)
• Sarah Gad at the Minneapolis courthouse ran into the judge who presided over her drug charges nearly a decade ago. “Sarah, what are you doing here?” he asked. She’s now an attorney, defending people like her younger self, and running for Congress. (Washington Post)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Robert Brown has joined Sheppard Mullin as chief operating officer based in New York. He joins from Shearman & Sterling.
• Tabitha Oman has been named vice president and general counsel at Penn State University. She joins from her role as chief ethics and compliance officer at Penn State.
• Suzanne M. Miller has joined Miller Johnson as a member in the real estate practice group in Detroit, Mich. She joins from Butzel Long.
• Dan Valencia has joined DLA Piper as a partner with the patent litigation subgroup of the intellectual property and technology practice in Washington, D.C.
• Eryn Brasovan has joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in the Baltimore, Md., office.
• Deborah Misir has joined Cullen and Dykman as a partner in its commercial litigation department.
• Aimee Feinberg has rejoined Munger Tolles & Olson as of counsel in San Francisco.