Wake Up Call: Gender Balance Off at Solicitors Office as Female Lawyers Exit

In today’s Wake Up Call, Holland & Knight hired a former FBI special agent as a partner in Chicago, while Latham & Watkins is advising a group of immigration judges on their fight against a DOJ effort to scuttle their union.

• With recent exits of several prominent female lawyers from the U.S. solicitor general’s office in Washington, the office’s gender balance has gone off-kilter, according to a report. (National Law Journal)

• Holland & Knight hired former FBI special agent Brian Hayes, who most recently was criminal division chief in Chicago’s U.S. attorney’s office, where he spent 16 years. ...