Washington Wrap is a weekly look at the biggest legal industry news and Big Law moves shaping the legal business in Washington, D.C. Send tips and lateral moves to Ryan Lovelace at [email protected].

It’s been a roller-coaster year for the Washington, D.C., legal market, from the sexual assault allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the many controversies surrounding President Donald Trump and his businesses, to regulatory moves like the Justice Department’s aggressive enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. But so far it’s been relatively quiet on another front: law firm merger activity.