Bloomberg Law
May 9, 2018, 11:10 AM UTC

Wake Up Call: King & Spalding Hires Sally Yates, Former AG Fired by Trump

• Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, famously fired by Donald Trump in the early days of his presidency for refusing to defend the travel ban, is returning to King & Spalding decades after starting her legal career there. The firm said Yates, who spent 27 years at the DOJ, will be a partner based in Atlanta and Washington and lead an independent team to investigate corporations. That’s a similar role to the one former Attorney General Eric Holder has at Covington Burling.( BLB )

• New York’s solicitor general, Barbara Underwood, has stepped in as acting attorney general, following the resignation of ...

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