Wake Up Call: Former Akin Gump Partner Lawyers Up

• The former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner charged with trying to sell a sealed whistleblower complaint to the company under investigation has hired a prominent California white-collar attorney for his defense. ( The Recorder )

• Revenue surged 20 percent for Crowell & Moring in 2016, and profits per equity partner jumped 40 percent, as the firm came up with several ways to get more money out of the same pool of attorneys, it said. ( National Law Journal )

• With media giant Viacom on the cusp of a “new day,” its general counsel Michael Fricklas is leaving the company with “very mixed emotions,” Fricklas said in an email. Fricklas, ...