Wake Up Call: Quinn’s Spiro Investigates New Tupac Murder Theory

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

• Quinn Emanuel’s Alex Spiro and Christopher Clore have been retained, with a team of investigators, to look into whether rapper Sean Combs, known by his stage name Diddy, played a role in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The unsubstantiated claim comes from Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who is charged for involvement in the killing. (TMZ)
• Criminal defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman is representing the son of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after Joaquin Guzman Lopez was arrested last week on drug trafficking charges. Lichtman, who also represented El Chapo, says there’s no deal with federal prosecutors. (Chicago Tribune)
• Japan has streamlined its process for registering foreign lawyers by reducing the amount of paperwork that must be given to the Japanese Ministry of Justice to practice their home law in that country. Under the new rules. Law firms can re-use an array of documents to support an application so long as they are up to date. (Global Legal Post)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• Taylor Speers has joined Holland & Knight as a partner on the financial services team in Dallas. He joins from Winston & Strawn.
• Rhett Butler has joined Shumaker as an associate in the corporate, tax, and transactions service line.
• Thomas Cryan joined Saul Ewing as partner in its employee benefits and executive compensation in Washington D.C.
• J.P. Hong and James Shreve have been named partners in Locke Lord’s Chicago office. Hong joins from Sidley. Shreve joins from Thompson Coburn.
• Brittany Mangan joined Tarter Krinsky & Drogin as partner in its matrimonial and family law practice on Long Island.