Wake Up Call: Fox Says GC Zweifach Heading Back to Williams & Connolly

• 21st Century Fox Inc. general counsel Gerson Zweifach will return to Williams & Connolly once the media company closes its $71 billion asset sale to Walt Disney Co. in the first half of 2019, Fox said. Zweifach, who spent 30 years at Williams & Connolly as a litigator in high profile cases, in 2012 joined Fox where he guided billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his family through crises including the British phone-hacking scandal. ( Bloomberg )

• Over a dozen former Dickstein Shapiro lawyers are suing Blank Rome, arguing that it characterized the two firms’ 2016 combination as a sale of assets rather than as a merger, ...