Ex-AG nominated to 1st Circuit, VP Harris' advisor joins Jenner & Block, Freshfields leader joins King & Spalding, McDermott lawyer starts own firm
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President Joe Biden nominated former New Hampshire attorney general Michael Delaney?to a seat on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as part of his first slate of four new judicial nominees of 2023. Delaney served as New Hampshire AG from 2009 to 2013 and is now a lawyer at the law firm McLane Middleton.
Delaney would succeed U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Howard, who, before?assuming senior status, a form of semi-retirement in March, was the lone Republican appointee among the 1st Circuit's then-six active judges.
Biden has already secured confirmation of two 1st Circuit judges, Gustavo Gelpí and Lara Montecalvo, and has?put forward?the name of abortion rights lawyer?Julie Rikelman?to fill the court's other current vacancy.
The recent nominations on Jan. 18 brought the number of judicial nominees announced by the Democratic president since taking office in January 2021 to 154. The Senate has confirmed 97 of them, and a majority have been women or people of color.
Josh Hsu, a former lawyer for Vice President Kamala Harris at both the White House and the U.S. Senate, will join the law firm Jenner & Block in March, the firm said. Hsu will be a partner at the Chicago-based firm's Washington, D.C., office, working in its government controversies and public policy litigation practice. He left the White House in November after two years there.
At the White House, Hsu was Harris' chief legal advisor, requiring him to work on a broad range of issues. His areas of focus included reproductive rights, particularly after the U.S. Supreme Court in June reversed national legal access to abortion, as well as voting rights.
Hsu is the latest addition to the practice at Jenner. Michelle Kallen, formerly with the U.S. House general counsel's office,?joined?in September. Marcus Childress, a former investigator for the congressional committee that investigated the storming of the U.S. Capitol by former President Donald Trump's supporters, was?hired?in November.
U.S. law firm King & Spalding has hired the New York leader of London-founded Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
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The Atlanta-founded firm said that Olivia Radin joined King & Spalding as a partner on its special matters and government investigations team. She worked at Freshfields for 14 years, and before that had associate roles at Morgan Stanley and law firm Covington & Burling.
Radin said she was eager to work with new colleagues like Sally Yates, the former acting U.S. attorney general, and?Randy Mastro, a prominent trial lawyer and former New York deputy mayor who joined the firm from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher last year.
King & Spalding touted Radin's work representing clients before a variety of state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Andrea (Andie) Kramer, who led the financial products, trading, and derivatives group at Chicago-founded law firm McDermott Will & Emery, has started her own Windy City law firm.
Kramer, 67, said she can deliver the same results for her clients without the trappings of a large law firm. She left McDermott on Dec. 31, exactly 30 years after she started at the firm; McDermott does not have a mandatory retirement age, Kramer said.
At her own firm, ASKramer Law LLC, she said she has more flexibility in setting up alternative fee arrangements with clients and can take on new clients with having to check for conflicts among 2,000 other lawyers.
Kramer said she will continue to advise clients such as multinational energy companies and family offices on regulatory, tax, commercial, documentation, and governance issues. She said a number of her large clients are joining her at her new firm but declined to name them.
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