When Kyle Wallace left his partnership at Alston & Bird last year to join the plaintiffs firm Shiver Hamilton, he said he hoped to draw on his dozen years of experience defending huge companies in more than a hundred consumer class actions, business torts, insurance bad faith and other high-stakes cases.

New partner Jeff Shiver said at the time that Wallace is “wicked smart” and has “the rare gift of being able to articulate complicated legal concepts in a way that ordinary people can understand.”