– Law firm Reed Smith said that its global managing partner and executive committee chair Alexander Thomas is stepping down for a new job at a nonprofit, sparking the first top leadership change at the firm in a decade.
– A federal judge agreed to bar Proskauer Rose’s former operations chief Jonathan O’Brien from accessing confidential data that the law firm claims he stole before resigning in December, and to limit his pool of prospective new employers.
– Joe Biden is not renominating William Pocan and Jorge Rodriguez to serve as federal judges. By the end of Monday, only three nominees had not been renominated, including Pocan and Rodriguez.