Tuesday round-up

Admit it. Sometimes you’ve wondered what it would be like to say goodbye to the practice of law. These are the stories of six lawyers who did just that.
The head of the private funds practice at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz joins Ropes & Gray; Clifford Chance grows in New York; Sheppard Mullin recruits in Florida; and other notable additions from throughout The Am Law 200.
Robert Cordy, an associate justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who announced his retirement earlier this year, is poised to return to McDermott Will & Emery’s Boston office, where he once served as managing partner.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and Herrick, Feinstein played a behind-the-scenes role in advising surfing-related organizations, which successfully got the sport accepted into the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.
The ABA thought getting a renewal of its accreditation power would be a cakewalk—until its barefoot journey over hot coals began.