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- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is ending an eight-year legal fight with former attorney Kristy Wagner, who claimed she was discriminated against after a zip-lining accident left her severely injured. Wagner claimed that she was granted remote work after the accident but told she would not be promoted to partner unless she was working in office and traveling for business. (Reuters)
- The University of Michigan bypassed local prosecutors to ask State Attorney General Dana Nessel to bring charges against pro-Palestinian campus protesters. The move has raised questions of conflicts of interest, as six of eight regents on the university’s board contributed to Nessel’s campaigns, her office hired a regent’s law firm to handle major state cases, and the same regent co-chaired her 2018 campaign. (The Guardian)
- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is facing a 90-day law license suspension for refusing to comply with a court order and disparaging judges. In a 2021 case representing the state legislature in a battle over subpoena power, Knudsen informed the state Supreme Court that the legislature wouldn’t recognize or abide by a court order barring the release of state judiciary emails. (Montana Free Press)
- Cravath Swaine & Moore bolstered its London office by hiring Chris Medley and Rohan Saha as leveraged finance partners. The pair joins from Linklaters. (FN London)
Laterals, Moves, In-House
- Joshua Ehrenfeld and Charles Curley joined Foley & Lardner as partners in its innovative technology and transactions practice in Jacksonville, Fla. They join from Burr & Forman.
- Andrew Spielman, Courtney Shephard, and Eric Waeckerlin joined Greenberg Traurig as shareholders in its environmental practice in Denver. They join from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
- Jan Henning Buschfeld will join Mayer Brown as partner in its litigation group in Düsseldorf, Germany. He joins from Freshfields.
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