John Thorne has no clients, and he hasn’t worked at a law firm in nearly three decades. But that didn’t stop Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel from snapping him up as a partner last week. As deputy general counsel of Verizon Communications Inc., Thorne for years has been one of the stars of the in-house bar Global Counsel Awards named him the best in-house competition lawyer in the world in 2009.
Thorne said he left Verizon after 24 years with the company and its predecessor Bell Atlantic simply because “I want to do new things.” He only talked to one firm Kellogg Huber, where some of the lawyers are old friends. Thorne has co-written five books with name partners Michael Kellogg and Peter Huber, and he had turned to the firm as outside counsel for years.
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