Seven partners left Willkie Farr & Gallagher, one of the nine firms that made a deal with President Donald Trump, to join Cooley’s litigation department in San Francisco.
In contrast to Willkie, Cooley lawyers including Michael Attanasio have been representing Jenner & Block in that firm’s successful effort to permanently strike down a Trump executive order as unconstitutional.
The seven are Simona Agnolucci, Ben Hur, Joshua Anderson, Tiffany Lin, Jonathan Patchen, Michael Rome and Eduardo Santacana, according to a Cooley statement. Agnolucci and Hur led Willkie’s San Francisco office and Agnolucci was a member of the firm’s executive committee.
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