Wake Up Call: Big Law’s Executive Suite Hiring Remains High

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

• Big Law saw a surge in C-suite hiring this summer, with moves across firms such as Cadwalader, Morrison & Foerster, and Winston & Strawn. Notable shifts included Morrison & Foerster recruiting CFO Timothy Murphy from Paul Weiss and Husch Blackwell naming Erin Banks as chief business development officer. (Law.com)
• TaxProf Blog is shutting down after 21 years. Typepad, the platform that has hosted the blog since 2004, announced that it will close, and TaxProf founder and Pepperdine Law Dean Paul Caron said that he is not interested in starting on a new platform. He wrote that he will try to find another home for the blog’s archive of nearly 56,000 posts before Typepad shutters on Sept. 30. (Reuters)
• Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Enrique Monguia was publicly admonished by a state commission for threatening gun violence in the courtroom, among other incidents. In a September 2023 case, Monguia told two attorneys that he believed were discussing a matter too loudly, and that “he would authorize his bailiff to use physical force, not for the bailiff to shoot counsel, but so Judge Monguia could shoot counsel himself,” if they did not lower their voices. (KTLA)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• Jeff Beuche rejoined Perkins Coie as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in Denver. He joins from Cooley.
• Brian Hamilton joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a partner in its private equity and M&A practice groups in New York. He joins from Sullivan & Cromwell.
• Mohammed Shaheen rejoined Latham & Watkins as a partner in its banking and private credit practice in Chicago. He joins from Stanford University.
• Alec Jarvis joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in its tax practice in New York. He joins from Skadden.
• Andrew Houghton joined Reed Smith as a partner in its global corporate group in London. He joins from Proskauer Rose.
• Robert Bastian joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in its global corporate practice group in Frankfurt. He joins from Dentons.
• Bradley Harris joined Squire Patton Boggs as director in its financial services practice group in London.
• Matt Squires joined Greenberg Traurig as a partner in its Latin America practice in Salt Lake City. He joins from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
• Peter Amend joined Alston & Bird as a partner in its financial restructuring and reorganization group in New York.
• Colin Heideman, Jeremy Anapol, and Christie Matthaei joined Morgan Lewis as partners in its intellectual property practice. They join from Knobbe Martens.
• Joseph Pelochino joined Ogletree Deakins as a shareholder in San Diego. He joins from Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo.
• Christine Graham and Alexis Early joined BCLP as partners in its antitrust, competition and trade practice. Graham joins from Cooley and Early joins from Jenner & Block.
• Ka Chun Leung joined Blank Rome as a patent attorney in its intellectual property group in Washington.