SAN FRANCISCO — Law firm leaders anticipated California’s lateral market would sizzle in 2014. And on the third working day of the new year, the San Francisco offices of Shearman & Sterling, Akin Gump and Morgan Lewis all welcomed new attorneys.
Corporate partner Robert Nelson Jr. departed Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to join Shearman & Sterling, litigation partner Aaron Murphy moved from Latham & Watkins to Akin Gump and renewable energy counsel Evelyn Kim joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius from Foley & Lardner.
