Wake Up Call: Minority Enrollment Steady at Top Law Schools

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

• Early data from five of the top 20 law schools in the US shows the percentage of students of color enrolling this year has remained mostly unchanged following the Supreme Court’s ruling barring colleges and universities from considering race in admissions. The University of California, Berkeley School of Law was the only school reporting a decline—falling to 50% minority students enrolling this year from 57% last year. (Reuters)
• Ex-Twitter executive Sean Edgett has joined online dating company Match Group as its chief legal officer. Edgett was among a group of top Twitter lawyers fired by Elon Musk shortly after he acquired the company. (Match Group)
• Former president Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to threaten jail time for lawyers and others “involved in unscrupulous behavior” related to voting in the 2024 election. Election officials have warned that his rhetoric could provoke violence against election officials and lawyers involved in certifying results. (The Washington Post)
• Freshfields has launched a new social mobility strategy in an effort to boost diversity among its junior lawyers, aiming to recruit at least 20% of its trainees from lower socioeconomic backgrounds in its 2024 through 2026 recruitment cycles. (FN London)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• J. Christian Nahr joined Skadden as a partner in its banking group in New York. He joins from Fried Frank.
• Will Stute joined King & Spalding as a partner in its product liability and mass torts practice group in Miami. He joins from Orrick.
• Jason Parsont joined Mayer Brown as a partner in the capital markets and public companies and corporate governance practices in New York.
• Jose Tadeo Martinez joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its financial services team in Washington. He joins from IDB Invest, where he was lead counsel.
• Brian Patterson joined Bracewell as partner in its labor and employment group in Houston. He joins from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
• Todd Boudreau joined Arnold & Porter as a partner in its corporate and finance practice in Boston.
• Richard Sauber joined Kramer Levin as a partner in its congressional investigations and white collar defense practices. He joins from the White House, where he was special counsel to the president.
• Lauren Varnado joined Brown Rudnick in its oil and gas litigation practice in Houston office. She joins from Michelman & Robinson.
• Om Pandya joined Clifford Chance as partner in its capital markets practice in Houston. He joins from Latham & Watkins.
• Kevin Yingling joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as an antitrust partner in Washington. He joins from Google.