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Citing inappropriate social media posts, Mayer Brown fires accomplice lower than 2 months after hiring announcement
By Debra Cassens Weiss
July 29, 2025, 9:23 am CDT
Mayer Brown fired a lateral funds formation accomplice in early July after a report surfaced of inappropriate social media posts with sexually specific language on X, previously generally known as Twitter. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Mayer Brown fired a lateral funds formation accomplice in early July after a report surfaced of inappropriate social media posts with sexually specific language on X, previously generally known as Twitter, in keeping with a report by Regulation.com.
The fired accomplice is David Kreisler, who was a accomplice within the world non-public funds and funding administration follow, in keeping with a mid-Might hiring announcement by the regulation agency.
A Mayer Brown spokesperson instructed Regulation.com that it realized concerning the since-deleted social media posts after a Medium put up included alleged display screen photographs.
“We promptly terminated him as a accomplice as soon as we turned conscious of the scenario, and he’s now not affiliated with the agency,” the spokesperson stated.
The agency instructed Regulation.com that it engaged “respected third-party screening suppliers” to vet Kreisler.
Accomplice recruiter Jeffrey Lowe of CenterPeak instructed Regulation.com that he thinks that there’s a large disparity in due diligence by high corporations when screening lateral hires.
“Some corporations are actively social media profiles and the like,” he stated, “but additionally I believe many don’t and don’t have as refined of a vetting course of as others.”
Regulation.com was not in a position to attain Kreisler for remark utilizing “numerous listed factors of contact.” The ABA Journal was unable to discover a working telephone quantity for him on-line. An inventory for Kreisler by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has his telephone quantity at Mayer Brown in New York, however no different quantity.
Kreisler got here to Mayer Brown from DLA Piper. He had joined DLA round Might 2024 after working at Sidley Austin.
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