Latham Chair Resigns Amid Revelation of Personal, ‘Sexual’ Conduct

Bill Voge, the managing partner and chair of Latham & Watkins, has stepped down and resigned from the firm after admitting to inappropriate personal conduct of a “sexual nature,” the firm announced on Tuesday.

Voge “tendered his resignation after making a series of voluntary disclosures to the Firm’s Executive Committee relating to his personal conduct,” the firm said.

That conduct “involved the exchange of communications of a sexual nature with a woman whom he has never met in person and who had no connection to the Firm.”

The firm said that Voge engaged in “subsequent conduct relating to this matter that, while not unlawful, the Executive Committee concluded was not befitting ...