KEN GROSS LANDS AT AKIN GUMP: Ken Gross, who retired earlier this year after more than three decades advising clients on campaign finance, ethics and lobbying laws at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, has come out of retirement, joining Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s public law and policy practice as a senior political law counsel and consultant.
— “I figured if Tom Brady can do it, I can do it,” Gross joked in an interview, noting that even though he kept busy on the boards of a number of D.C. nonprofits following his mandatory retirement from Skadden, “I had watched enough episodes of ‘Law & Order’in the afternoon” that “I said, ‘You know, I don’t feel like I’m done yet.’” On a more serious note, heading to Akin Gump “just seemed like a good fit for me,” Gross said, adding that he looks forward to helping grow the practice there.