Wake Up Call: Risks Rising for U.K. Firms With Russian Clients

In today’s column, civil rights attorney Ben Crump co-founded a new organization aimed at promoting leadership roles for nonwhite attorneys; Michael Avenatti is hiring back the public defenders he fired in January; California’s bar revived work on developing nontraditional legal services.

• Leading off, the U.K. government is warning law firms, public relations and other professional services firms working to help Russian oligarchs avoid U.K. sanctions that they could get hit by financial penalties themselves. (The Guardian)
• U.S. firms still in Moscow after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine face reputational risks for representing Russian clients and, because of sanctions, the ...