Wake Up Call: Orrick Poaches PwC Team for London Cyber and Privacy Practice

In today’s column, TikTok hired a Microsoft in-house veteran to be its first global general counsel; Pier 1 Imports top lawyer Robert Bostrom died; and a St. Louis judge postponed a trial over Bayer AG’s Roundup to allow the parties time to work out a settlement.

• Leading off, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe said it is launching a cybersecurity and privacy practice in London to help companies address litigation and regulatory enforcement in the U.K. and European Union. The practice starts with two lawyers hired from Pricewaterhouse Coopers UK: Keily Blair, who was leader of contentious data protection strategy at ...