Wake Up Call: The Class Action Attorney’s Least Favorite Lawyer

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

• Ted Frank, the 54-year-old co-founder of nonprofit Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, is on a crusade to make some lawyers filing class actions more interested in the welfare of their clients than in boosting the bottom line. HLLI asks judges overseeing litigation to reduce pay to the plaintiffs’ lawyers, increase the compensation to the victim class or just throw the whole case out. Frank says that Hamilton Lincoln’s Center for Class Action Fairness has participated in 125 cases and won at least a partial victory in a comfortable majority. (Forbes)
• Legal tech CEO and Harvard Law prodigy Kiwi Camarra’s exit followed complaints of sexual misconduct. Current and former employees say he abruptly quit as chief executive after the company’s board began investigating allegations that he groped a young female employee. CS Disco, a niche supplier of software for lawyers, gave little explanation for its leader’s sudden departure. Camarra walked away from stock options once valued at nearly $110 million. (Wall Street Journal)
• City of London law firms are buying solar energy from rural British homeowners in a bid to meet net zero environmental goals. Customers include Doughty Street legal chambers, of which Amal Clooney is a member, and the Bar Council. Broker Good Energy is partnered with the Legal Sustainability Alliance, which counts Clifford Chance and Norton Rose Fulbright as members. (The Telegraph)
• Ken who? Defending Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton during his impeachment trial was an opportunity for Tony Buzbee to show off his skills as a lawyer—including boisterous questioning, illustrated slideshows and Shakespearean proclamations. (Houston Chronicle)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Michael S. Harrington has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the corporate practice group in Philadelphia, Penn. He joins from Fox Rothschild.
• Melis Acuner has joined Quinn Emanuel as a partner in London. She joins from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.
• Naveen Pogula has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner with the global corporate practice in Atlanta. He joins from Thompson Hine.
• Joe Urwitz has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the tax group.
• Jae Lee has joined Nelson Mullins as a partner in San Diego.