Elite boutiques competing with Big Law behemoths loaded up on talent this year, as they turned to former prosecutors and other litigators to boost their ranks.
Trial-focused law firms stocked up on litigators with experience in hot practice areas like health care, antitrust and employment. They expanded their rosters as courts slogged through cases backlogged by Covid-19 stoppages.
Here are 10 lateral moves that highlight a banner year for boutiques.
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone started the year by building out his law firm’s Washington office, hiring veteran GOP lawyer Fred Fielding.
The 81-year-old Fielding, who has worked in Republican administrations dating back to Richard Nixon, served as White House counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He also advised former President Donald Trump’s transition team, working on an effort to separate the then president-elect from his various businesses.
Cipollone found himself in the spotlight this year as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol honed in on some of Trump’s top advisers.
James Attridge joined Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider’s DC office as a partner in September, after serving as chief of staff in the Justice Department’s antitrust division. He was one of several notable departures from the division over the year.
Attridge was...
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