Musical Chairs: 01.08.06
Lots of interesting moves, both actual and rumored, to report upon today.
Possible promotion:
* Elena Kagan, the popular (and hot) dean of Harvard Law School, is being considered for the presidency of Harvard University.
In government:
* New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is on a hiring spree (just like his successor as AG, Andrew Cuomo). Lloyd Constantine, who currently heads a 40-lawyer firm, will serve as a senior advisor to Spitzer. Debra Bachrach, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, will direct the state's Medicaid program. Joseph Baker, bureau chief for health care under AG Spitzer, will take over as deputy secretary for health and human services.
"You're Fired":
* Former Apple in-house lawyer Wendy Howell was discreetly discharged, late last year, for her role in the options backdating fiasco.
Reunited and it feels so good:
* Structured finance lawyers William Cullen, Janet Barbiere and Bola Oloko, to Thacher Proffitt & Wood, from Sidley & Austin. The trio left Thacher Proffitt together in 1997 (back when Barbiere and Oloko were still associates; they were recently promoted to partnership at Sidley).
Other lateral moves:
* Bankruptcy lawyer Steven Wilamowsky, to Bingham McCutchen, from Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Headhunters at Harvard May Pick a Woman [New York Times]
NY Bankruptcy Partner Switches Firms [NYLawyer.com]
NY Trio Returns to Firm They Left in the '90s [NYLawyer.com]
Spitzer Taps Three NY Lawyers to Fill Key Positions [NYLawyer.com]
Apple Quietly Canned Lawyer Who Backdated [The Recorder via Law.com]
(5) Comments
Um. Fred Fielding?
Please stop calling Dean Kagan hot. Every time you attach the word to some smart but obviously not attractive academic or judge, you chisel away a little piece of its meaning. Soon all that will be left is a hollow shell of what used to be a meaningful word, and an inescapable tendency for me to associate the word "hot" with frumpy intellectuals.
Seriously, David. It's clear you're looking to be really egalitarian on some kind of weird level but hot is not the word. Tepid, not even.
Calling Kagan "hot" wasn't Lat's call. Click through to the link.
You'll see that someone nominated Kagan for the "Hot Deans" contest. Most of the contestants in that contest are attractive, by conventional standards. E.g., Leah Jackson, Asha Rangappa.
So maybe some people find Kagan attractive too. (I don't, personally, but there are many "hot" women I don't find that attractive. E.g., Cameron Diaz.)
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