Dechert Pads White Collar Clout with Hire From Cahill

We’re off to a frenzied start of the week for business of law news, with a number of big law firm hires capturing headlines.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison brought back to the firm former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; while in Asia, Morgan Lewis & Bockius hired nine partners from Orrick in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore, and here in New York, Dechert hired David Kelley, who served on the executive committee of Cahill, Gordon & Reindell.

We should have more on the other hires later today, with interviews with the key players, but to start, we caught up ...