Wake Up Call: Quinn Emanuel UK Lawyers Dodge Office This Month

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

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is letting London-based lawyers work from home the entire month after the policy was well received last year. Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson is allowing London lawyers to work from home in the last two weeks of August. (Law.com)

Aspiring attorneys should not have to disclose personal mental health information, the American Psychological Association has determined. The group decided to join a push to strike mental health questions from character and fitness reviews for would-be lawyers. (Reuters)

Phillips Murrah and Goolsby Proctor should pay Red Dirt Electric’s legal costs and apologize after suing the company over a fire that occurred before Red Dirt existed, owner Spencer Struck contends. Struck said legal team representatives told him the wrong people get sued every day. Red Dirt is no longer named in the suit. (The Oklahoman)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Amy L. Ruhland has joined Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg as Austin managing partner to launch the Austin, Texas, office.
• Katherine B. Kohn and James C. Fraser have joined Thompson Hine in Washington, D.C.
• Max Karpel has joined Akin Gump as a partner in the investment management practice in New York.
• Joel V. Sestito has joined Blank Rome as a partner in the real estate group in Chicago.
• Howard S. Hirsch has joined Nelson Mullins LLP in Atlanta, Ga., as a partner.
• Robert J. Nolan has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the trial practice group in San Francisco, Calif.
• Geoffrey Greeves has joined K&L Gates in the litigation and dispute resolution practice area in Washington, D.C.
• Brad M. Rostolsky has joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder with the health care and FDA practice in Philadelphia, Penn.
• Robert Rizzi has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its tax, executive compensation, and benefits practice in Washington, D.C.