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An unnamed former Northwestern University football player sued the Illinois school and its fired head coach Patrick Fitzgerald, in what appears to be the first lawsuit since accusations of hazing in its football program came to light. The lawsuit is attracting a growing cadre of high-profile lawyers from Chicago and elsewhere.
Fitzgerald last week tapped attorney Dan Webb, who co-leads Winston & Strawn, to represent him. Northwestern previously said it had hired Maggie Hickey, a veteran investigator and former federal prosecutor, from ArentFox Schiff.
More lawsuits are likely to follow. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that he is representing at least eight former Northwestern athletes and has teamed up with Chicago personal injury firm Levin & Perconti for the matter. Read more about the lawyers involved in the litigation.
More from the legal industry …
Former Freedman Normand Friedland partners Eric Rosen and Constantine Economides left the cryptocurrency-focused plaintiffs’ law firm to start their own law firm, Dynamis … Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk sought Rule 11 sanctions against Evan Spencer of Evan Spencer Law, who represents a prospective class of Dogecoin investors suing Musk and Tesla for allegedly duping them into buying the coins … Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz lost a bid to avoid sanctions … The U.S. Senate confirmed Rachel Bloomekatz, an Ohio public interest lawyer, as President Joe Biden’s latest nominee to the 6th Circuit … Coca-Cola’s bid to disqualify law firm Paul Hastings from representing its adversary in a trade-secrets lawsuit was rejected … A lawyer known for filing hundreds of “frivolous” food and beverage labeling lawsuits faces sanctions in Starbucks and Walmart cases … Wisconsin Supreme Court shot down the state’s bar proposal to let attorneys fulfill their required continuing legal education credits with diversity training classes.
Moves:
- In New York …
Joseph Greenaway Jr, who retired from his lifetime appointment as a judge on the 3rd Circuit in June, will join Arnold & Porter. Pallas Partners hired an 11-year veteran of the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office. Cozen O’Connor added a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. Goodwin brought on a real estate joint ventures and investment funds partner from Paul Weiss. Partner Helen Gavaris joined McGuireWoods’ fiduciary litigation team from Loeb & Loeb. The former deputy general counsel at Signify Health joined McDermott’s healthcare practice group as a partner.
- In Washington, D.C. …
Jeffrey Rosen, the former acting U.S. attorney general under President Donald Trump, joined Cravath. Daron Watts joined Lewis Brisbois as national chair of its government affairs and public policy practice. Winston & Strawn added three litigators from Sidley Austin and Kirkland & Ellis. Akin Gump hired a trio of international trade lawyers from Hughes Hubbard & Reed. Venable brought on William Vigen, who was previously at the DOJ, as a partner in its antitrust group.
- In Charlotte, N.C. …
K&L Gates hired an intellectual property partner David Easwaran from Womble.
- In Chicago …
Barnes & Thornburg added restructuring partner Ken Kansa from Sidley.
- In Dallas …
Thompson Coburn brought on three lawyers, including a state senator.
- In San Francisco …
Debevoise & Plimpton hired two litigation partners – Abraham Tabaie from Skadden and Josh Cohen from Clarence & Dyer.
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Senate Democrats are pursuing legislation on a bill introduced by a democratic senator that would impose on U.S. Supreme Court justices new requirements for financial disclosures and for recusal from cases in which a justice may have a conflict of interest.
Unlike other members of the federal judiciary, the Supreme Court’s nine life-tenured justices currently have no binding ethics code of conduct. After news reports in recent months detailing ties between wealthy benefactors and some conservative justices surfaced, the democratic lawmakers stated that the top court cannot be trusted to police itself.
Senate Judiciary Committee members are set to debate and vote on the bill on Thursday. Read more.
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Additional writing by Palak Chawla and Tanvi Shenoy.
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