DC Pulse

Willkie Becomes 3rd Firm To Reach Deal With Trump

By Alison Knezevich

After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigLaw firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.
Ex-Speaker Gingrich Lends Support To Limited Injunctions Bill

By Courtney Bublé

Former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Tuesday endorsed the idea behind Republican legislation that would require nationwide injunctions imposed by lower court against White House policies to be quickly brought before the U.S. Supreme Court.
BCLP Names New COO And Chief People Officer

By Kevin Penton

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired Newmark Group's former chief human resources officer as its chief people officer and shifted its chief financial officer to also serve as its chief operating officer, the firm announced Tuesday.
Hogan Lovells Adds Hunton Andrews Capital Markets Ace

By Lynn LaRowe

Hogan Lovells announced Tuesday that it has fortified its real estate investment trusts practice with a capital markets partner joining from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, who will share his time between Houston and Washington, D.C.
Baker Botts Names DC Partner As Antitrust Co-Leader

By Andrea Keckley

Baker Botts LLP announced on Tuesday the appointment of an executive committee member and former Washington, D.C., partner-in-charge as co-chair of its global antitrust practice.
Hunton Andrews Names New Office, Practice Group Leaders

By Rose Krebs

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed several attorneys to key leadership posts, including new leaders of its Miami and Richmond offices.
Venezuelans Asks Justices To Keep Block On Removals

By Katie Buehler

Five detained Venezuelans urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to deny President Donald Trump's move to lift a D.C. federal judge's order prohibiting the removal of alleged gang members from the U.S. under the Alien Enemies Act, arguing the president's "staggering" assertion of authority under the wartime law is unsubstantiated.
Davis Wright Hires 40-Year Energy Vet From Pierce Atwood

By Jack Rodgers

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has hired an energy partner from Pierce Atwood LLP who has more than four decades of experience representing energy project developers, private equity companies who invest in those projects and other players, the firm announced on Tuesday.
Fox Rothschild Names Office, Practice Group, Dept. Leaders

By Lynn LaRowe

Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has installed new office managing partners in four cities, added co-chairs to its taxation and wealth planning department, and brought on an aviation practice group co-chair as part of the firm's standard leadership rotation.
Hunter Biden Agrees To Disbarment In District of Columbia

By Alison Knezevich

Hunter Biden has agreed to give up his license to practice law in Washington, D.C., according to an attorney disciplinary board's report issued Tuesday.
Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships

When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
How Lewis Brisbois Is Addressing Associate Pay Delay

By Aebra Coe

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired two new staff members and is working to refine its process for determining discretionary bonuses and merit pay after the firm notified a portion of its associates this week that those payments would be delayed.
Sotomayor And Jackson Rue Court's Rejection Of Habeas Case

By Cara Salvatore

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said Monday the U.S. Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split regarding how many circuit judges' votes are needed to allow a habeas appeal, critiquing the denial of cert to a death row prisoner.
Justices Doubtful Of Inmate's Habeas Amendment Petition Bid

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared reluctant to make an exception to a federal law preventing incarcerated people from bringing multiple habeas corpus challenges to their convictions by allowing prisoners to amend their initial habeas petitions while they are still pending on appeal.
Trump EOs And Skadden Face Pushback At Law Schools

By Emma Cueto

President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting law firms, and one firm's attempt to avoid a directive, have each received pushback at top law schools, with more than 90 Harvard faculty members objecting to the measures' effect on the rule of law and Georgetown students blasting Skadden's deal with Trump as a second firm associate publicly resigned.
Workplace Misconduct Infrequent In Fed. Courts, Survey Says

By Jack Karp

The vast majority of federal judiciary employees say they have not experienced discrimination, harassment or abuse at work, but many of those workers are still reluctant to report misconduct when they do experience it, according to a report issued Monday.
NFL Taps Ex-Facebook, White House Atty Ullyot As GC

By Sue Reisinger

Former Facebook general counsel and White House lawyer Ted Ullyot will become executive vice president and general counsel of the National Football League on May 1, the league announced Monday.
Justices Probe Wis. Denial Of Exemption To Catholic Charities

By Maria Koklanaris

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed deeply skeptical Monday that Wisconsin was on firm constitutional grounds in denying an unemployment tax exemption to a group of Catholic charities because, as the state claimed, they were not operated primarily for religious purposes.
McDermott Adds Trade, National Security Atty From Dechert

By Jack Rodgers

McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced Monday that it had hired an attorney from Dechert LLP who specializes in national security compliance in international trade, continuing a trend among firms in Washington, D.C., looking to enhance their offerings amid ongoing and rapid changes to U.S. trade policy.
Kirkland Slims Bias Suit But Can't Nix Caregiver Claim

By Patrick Hoff

Kirkland & Ellis LLP must face a former technology analyst's claim that his boss unlawfully changed his schedule despite knowing that would interfere with his child care responsibilities, a D.C. federal judge ruled Monday, tossing hostile work environment allegations but letting a caregiver bias count move ahead.
Firms Look To Build Ties With Clients Amid Lateral Churn

By Aebra Coe

The departure of a key partner from a law firm in many cases can mean the departure of a major client in tandem, a vulnerability law firms are increasingly looking to address through strategies to build stronger institutional relationships with their clients.
Eric Adams Urges Speedy Dismissal As NYC Primaries Loom

By Frank G. Runyeon

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday urged a Manhattan federal judge to promptly throw out his bribery and corruption charges, pointing to an upcoming mayoral election filing deadline and the court's previous vows to rule quickly.
Cleary Gains 5-Atty Latham Team Known For Big IP Wins

By Andrea Keckley

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has welcomed a bi-coastal team of five intellectual property litigators from Latham & Watkins LLP, lauding their history leading "many of the most high-profile and complex patent and trade secrets cases of the last decade" in a statement Monday.
Up Next At High Court: Terror Liability, Health Provider Choice

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench this week to consider whether a federal law subjecting Palestinian government organizations to federal jurisdiction violates due process principles and if the Medicaid Act's provider choice provision allows individual benefit recipients to sue states over the disqualification of healthcare providers.
States Urge Justices To Skip Teacher Grants Case

By Katie Buehler

California, New York and six other states told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday it doesn't need to weigh in on the validity of a Massachusetts federal judge's order reinstating $250 million in teacher training grants the Trump administration targeted for cuts, noting the dispute will soon be moot.

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