Wake Up Call: Amazon Fires Akin Gump, Squire Patton Boggs Lobbyists

• Amazon.com Inc. last week replaced its Big Law lobbyists, a person familiar with the move said. The online commerce giant is said to have axed Akin Gump, Washington, D.C.'s biggest lobby firm, and Squire Patton Boggs, and hired new advisers who previously worked as outside lobbyists for Airbnb Inc. and Oracle Corp. at the now-fallen Podesta Group. Amazon’s move comes as the company faces Twitter attacks by President Donald Trump, months after the tax overhaul law was passed last year. ( Bloomberg )

• Chicago-based McDermott Will & Emery hired dozens of attorneys from DLA Piper, including Jeffrey Steiner, who will head the firm’s ...