Wake Up Call: Kaplan Says She Drove Trump ‘Insane’ in Deposition

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• Roberta Kaplan says she drove Donald Trump “completely insane” during a deposition of client E. Jean Carroll in one of the two defamation cases she won against the former president. During a Trump “tirade,” she said, all it took to get him in a lather was to ask, “Are you done yet? Because I have another question to ask.” (New York Magazine)
• Former Kirkland & Ellis associate Eric Pacifici, who founded SMB Law Group to aid small businesses, says he sees “tailwinds” for more states to loosen ethics rule 5.4, which prohibits non-lawyers from owning law firms. “My hope is that it happens and we can build a business that a private equity firm would want to acquire,” he said. (Forbes)
• Crypto bank Anchorage Digital has lost its general counsel, Georgia Quinn, who helped secure the company’s bank charter “amid regulatory scrutiny.” Anchorage hasn’t yet found a replacement for Quinn. (Business Insider)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Eva A. Temkin has joined Paul Hastings as chair of the FDA practice in Washington, D.C. She joins from King & Spalding.
• Gerami Granello has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the real estate practice group in the Houston office. He joins from Mayer Brown.
• Alexander Hendry has joined Baker Botts as a partner in the corporate department in the Dubai office. He joins from Latham & Watkins.
• Veronica Moyé has joined King & Spalding as a partner with the business litigation practice group in its newly opening Dallas office. She joins from Gibson Dunn.
• Rebecca Ford has joined Morgan Lewis as a partner in Dubai. She joins from Clyde & Co.
• Mark Brasher has rejoined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in the energy and infrastructure practice in Houston. He rejoins from Cordina, an Australian-based software and advisory firm.
• Megan Rooney has joined Sheppard Mullin as a healthcare partner in the Chicago office. She joins from McDermott Will & Emery.
• Nick O’Keefe has joined Foley & Lardner as a partner with the transactions practice group and innovative technology and health care and life sciences sectors in Silicon Valley, Calif. He joins from Arnold & Porter.
• Bradley Henry and Kathleen H. Shannon have joined Blank Rome as partners in the white collar defense and investigations group in New York and Washington, D.C., respectively. They join from Akerman.