Wake Up Call: Return to Office or Lose Job, Some Firms Say

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

• Associates who don’t return to the office will lose their jobs at some Big Law firms, according to a survey. (American Lawyer)
• A Russia-linked ransomware group claimed to have hacked litigation technology platform Casepoint, which works with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Defense, and courts, according to reports. (Tech Monitor) (CyberNews.com) (Twitter.com)
• Total compensation for compliance professionals grew an average 8% for all positions across all industries in 2022. Chief compliance officers’ total compensation rose 10%, with their long-term incentives up 14% and base compensation up 12%, according to executive search boutique Barker Gilmore’s new survey report. (BarkerGilmore.com)
• Eying the cloudy economic outlook, law firms are taking different approaches to rate increases. (The Recorder)

Lawyers, Law Firms

• Macy’s chief legal officer Elisa Garcia said she’s retiring in October. (Corporate Counsel) San Francisco 49ers chief legal and administrative officer Hannah Gordon, on maternity leave for the birth of her second child, announced that when she returns to the NFL team she will do so as senior adviser to the president for the 2023 season. (LinkedIn.com)
• Errors by Fox Corporation’s chief legal officer Viet Dinh in the defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems caused one of the biggest legal and business fiascos in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, the Times reported. (NYT)
• Ron Klain, former chief of staff to President Joe Biden, now a partner at O’Melveny & Myers, says in a recent interview that “I think [President Biden’s] legal training and legal thinking [was] very present in decision-making.” (ABA Journal)
• New guidance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US could cause “substantial challenges” and delays of certain investments, according to a report. (Export Compliance Daily)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Linklaters LLP snagged Morgan Lewis litigator and banking team co-leader Robin Nunn as partner in New York and Washington. According to her LinkedIn profile, Nunn was earlier at Dechert LLP as partner and chair of the consumer financial services group and was in-house at Capital One and American Express. (Linklaters)
• Venable LLP picked up Morrison & Foerster lending and financial transactions partner Jay Gavigan as partner in its corporate practice in New York. (Venable.com)
• Reed Smith grabbed Willkie Farr & Gallagher private equity lawyer Francois Feuillat as partner in London, effective June 1. (ReedSmith.com)
• Cleary Gottlieb brought back M&A and private equity lawyer Wei Fang as counsel in Beijing. Fang, a former Cleary senior associate, had stints at two other big US firms and arrives from Fangda Law Firm, where he was partner. (ClearyGottlieb.com)
• Real estate law firm Miller Starr Regalia added land-use attorney Bryn Jedlic as of counsel in Walnut Creek, California. He was previously in-house at Los Angeles based luxury hotel management company Viceroy Hotel Group and at a unit of Mubadala Investment Company, the United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth firm. (MSRLegal.com)
• High school media and technology company PlayOn! Sports hired former Warner Bros. Discovery executive and in-house attorney Lesley Wainwright as chief legal officer. She was a King & Spalding private equity associate early in her career. (PR Newswire)
• Ashland Greene Capital hired former Alston & Bird corporate and real estate law partner Gustav Bahn as general counsel. He arrives recently from Steadfast Apartment REIT, Inc., where he was chief legal officer and corporate secretary. (REJournals)

Legal Education

• Notre Dame Law School reappointed its dean, G. Marcus Cole, to another five-year term through June 2029. (Law.com) The University of Arkansas School of Law launched a search for its next dean. (News.UArk.edu)