Wake Up Call: Quinn Emanuel’s Burck Represents Hur on Cap Hill

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• Quinn Emanuel partner William “Bill” Burck will be representing former Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur, who questioned President Joe Biden’s mental acuity during his probe into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Burck, co-managing partner of the firm, works out of its Washington and New York offices, according to his Quinn Emanuel bio page. (New York Times)
• Paul, Weiss partner Loretta Lynch’s representation of Chinese drone company SZ DJI Technology caused a bit of a kerfuffle when she asked that her client be removed from a list of Chinese military companies. Transparency advocates say Lynch may have taken advantage of “gaps in the law” that allow lawyers and lobbyists to avoid disclosing their advocacy for companies that may subject to U.S. sanctions. (Reuters)
• Large London law offices are offering to test their employees for neurological conditions like autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as waiting times with the UK’s National Health Service, as well as drug shortages, have left many without support. Firms are stepping in to offer workplace support for “a number of neural conditions.” (The Telegraph)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Steven Lorch has joined Weil Gotshal as a partner in the tax department in New York. He joins from Bracewell.
• Sam Young has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the real estate capital markets group in Richmond, Va. He joins from Anchor Health Properties.
• Nicholas Simon has joined BakerHostetler as a partner in the business practice group and as a member of both the mergers and acquisitions team and sports industry team in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Monica Rodriguez has joined Davis Wright Tremaine as a partner on the employment services team in Los Angeles. She joins from Morrison Foerster.
• Briar McNutt has joined Epstein Becker Green as a member of the employee benefits team in the employment, labor, and workforce management practice in New York.
• Lavanya Raghavan has joined White & Case as a partner with the global mergers and acquisitions practice and global private equity industry group in London. She joins from Ropes & Gray.
• Bede Gahan has joined Norton Rose Fulbright as an employment and labor partner in in Canberra, Australia. He joins from HWL Ebsworth.
• Jacob Lager has joined Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass as a partner in the tax practice in San Francisco.
• Dina M. Mastellone, John C. Petrella, and Douglas E. Solomon have joined Jackson Lewis as principals in Berkeley Heights, N.J. They join from Genova Burns.