Wake Up Call: Musk Seeks Latham Boycott Over Work for Homeless

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

• Elon Musk called for a Latham & Watkins boycott over the firm’s work with Coalition on Homelessness that restricted city enforcement against lodging on the street. “We cannot let these snakes win or San Francisco will end up like Detroit,” he tweeted. (San Francisco Standard)
• Philip Inglima took a two-week vacation without interruption for the first time in many years and encouraged colleagues at the firm he chairs, Crowell & Moring, to also take time away. Not everyone appreciated the nudge. (Above The Law)
• Michael Farris has reached the pinnacle of the conservative legal establishment after toiling at the margins for decades. The ideology the evangelical lawyer has championed has moved from the partisan fringe to the center of bitter debates in the US over public education. (Washington Post)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Ron Hauben has joined McDermott Will & Emery as a partner and co-head of the accounting defense practice. He served as vice chair and general counsel at Ernst & Young.
• Peter Mason, who joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, will serve as a partner at White & Case in the global debt finance practice in London.