Wake Up Call: Mayer Brown Grows in Paris With Seven-Partner Team

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

• Mayer Brown has landed a seven-partner M&A and private equity team in Paris that will be jumping to the firm from Ayache, a “leading independent French law firm,” on Jan. 1, 2025. Mayer’s news release doesn’t list the names of the partners making the move, save one: Bernard Ayache, his firm’s co-managing partner. (Mayer Brown)
• An attorney formerly with Latinos for Trump, Kellye SoRelle, is set to plead guilty for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol. SoRelle has been charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, and with obstructing justice for allegedly telling other Jan. 6 protesters to delete information from their phones. (Newsweek)
• Fennemore Craig is promoting a new work-from-home program through “Fennemore Forward,” which allows its lawyers “to work permanently from nearly anywhere in the world.” The prevailing “BigLaw view” that the only way to build culture is to force everyone onsite almost every day, “is antiquated, fails to meet people where they are in life, and leads to a limiting one-size-fits-all view of the profession,” said Fennemore CEO James Goodnow. (Cision)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• Jonathan Olsen has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in the mergers and acquisitions practice in San Diego. He joins from Goodwin Procter.
• Renato Mariotti has joined Paul Hastings as a partner with the firm’s global investigations and white-collar defense practice in Chicago. He joins from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.
• Tana Ryan and Navneeta Rekhi have joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges as private equity partners in Los Angeles and San Francisco respectively. They join from Latham & Watkins.
• Gerald Moody has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld as a white collar defense and government investigations partner in Washington.
• Brian Glennon has joined McDermott Will & Emery as a partner with its litigation practice group in Los Angeles. He joins from Latham & Watkins.
• Andrew O’Brien has joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft as an executive compensation and employee benefits partner in its New York office.
• Dave Zampa, Erin Felchner, and Brielle Cuskelly have joined Alston & Bird as partners, strengthening the firm’s corporate, health care, and real estate practices. They join from Sidley Austin.
• Trevor Salter has joined Troutman Pepper’s corporate practice as a financial services partner in Washington. He joins from Morrison Foerster.