Bill Voge via Latham & Watkins website
There aren’t a lot of details here yet, but what we know right now is that Latham & Watkins chair Bill Voge abruptly resigned this afternoon “following an admission that he had engaged in communications of a sexual nature with a person not connected to the firm.”
Law360 cites from Voge’s statement:
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“It is with great sorrow that I step down as Chair and Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins. I made a personal mistake for which I bear considerable fault and humiliation,” Voge said in a written statement. “I deeply regret my lapse of judgment and I am sorry for the distress and embarrassment I have caused my family, friends, and colleagues. My conduct falls well below the personal and professional standards I have tried to uphold throughout my entire career. My disappointment in myself is all the more acute because this lapse does not represent who I am and what I believe, and because I have let down our firm and its people, all of whom I so deeply cherish and respect.”
BREAKING: Latham & Watkins Chair Resigns, Admits To Lewd Messages [Law360]
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