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The former assistant secretary of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Christina Zaroulis Milnor, has left government service after more than a decade to launch a Washington, D.C., office for North Carolina-based Cranfill Sumner LLP alongside two firm partners who say they are reinventing traditional white collar work, the firm announced Wednesday.

The list of large, international law firms downsizing in China — and, in particular, shuttering Shanghai offices — continues to grow, with an Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP spokesperson revealing Friday that the firm plans to close its office in the city and has already terminated its lease in Taipei, Taiwan.

Thompson Hine LLP has become the latest law firm to face discrimination allegations, as a former income partner filed a pro se lawsuit Monday against the firm in New York federal court alleging she was sexually harassed by a senior partner in the New York office and then retaliated against for reporting the misconduct.

All three lawyers set to receive the American Bar Association's Stonewall Award on Saturday began their careers in the closet at work, in a profession they say was not interested in actively embracing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lawyers at the time. Each recipient has since spent decades fighting to make sure the same isn't true for the next generation.

Two women lawyers have told Law360 that former Federal Trade Commission member and George Mason University law professor Joshua D. Wright abused his power in order to engage them in sexual contact, saying the alleged misconduct began while they were his students and later continued when they were his subordinates at the FTC and at a BigLaw firm.

For the 10th year in a row, Law360 is pleased to announce our list of the 400 largest U.S. firms by headcount.

Former Federal Trade Commission member, BigLaw partner and law professor Joshua Wright has filed a lawsuit against George Mason University over its handling of sexual misconduct accusations against him just a day before a judge dismissed Wright's defamation complaint against two of the alleged misconduct victims in Virginia state court.

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Brandy Wagstaff, an adjunct professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, says she first reported complaints about her then-colleague Joshua Wright engaging in inappropriate sexual relationships with students to the school's administration six years ago, but until recently, "nothing was ever done."