{"id":362038,"date":"2026-10-01T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362038\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:14:08","slug":"wachtell-brings-on-former-manhattan-prosecutor-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362038\/","title":{"rendered":"Wachtell Brings On Former Manhattan Prosecutor in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wachtell Lipton Rosen &amp; Katz has made a rare lateral addition to its litigation ranks, bringing on former Manhattan prosecutor Joon Kim in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Kim has joined the Wall Street law firm as a partner in its litigation department from Cleary Gottlieb Steen &amp; Hamilton where he was a partner in the litigation and enforcement group. Kim\u2019s addition comes months after the <a data-terminal-id=\"TIWJM6KIUPUG\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/wachtell-leader-savitt-exits-for-gibson-dunn-in-big-law-shakeup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surprise departure<\/a> of Wachtell\u2019s co-chair and veteran litigator William Savitt to Gibson Dunn &amp; Crutcher along with five other partners.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cJoon is an exceptional litigator and counselor to major corporations, whose expertise in high-profile investigations and white-collar work &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wachtell Lipton Rosen &amp; Katz has made a rare lateral addition to its litigation ranks, bringing on former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[73467,75,84,83,9,24,63,58360,100010],"class_list":["post-362038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-attorney-moves","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sex-offenses","tag-white-collar-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}