Wake Up Call: Universities Turn to Big Law to Fight Covid Class Actions

In today’s column, a California judicial committee voted to remove a state appeals judge who was accused of sexual harassment; Pryor Cashman suspended without pay the furloughed associate arrested on firebombing allegations in New York; litigation funder Validity Finance opened an office in Israel; KPMG Legal opened in Luxembourg; Hunton Andrews Kurth poached a three-lawyer Winston & Strawn energy and infrastructure team. Mayer Brown is representing a civil rights group suing over President Trump’s social media order.

• Leading off, universities are hiring Big Law attorneys to defend them against class actions filed by students seeking tuition and fee refunds after ...