Latham Hires Feinerman After Early Federal Bench Departure

Former Judge Gary Feinerman said he was looking for a new chapter after serving 12 years on the bench, and he found it starting this week at Latham & Watkins.

Feinerman, 57, and eight years away from senior status, will be a litigation partner in Latham’s Chicago office—just across the city’s Loop business district from his old federal courthouse.

“This won’t be a situation where I’m coming in to serve as a strategic advisory role,” Feinerman said in an interview. “I’ll be a working litigator, taking depositions, arguing motions, conducting trials.”

The hire is ...