James Williams is heading to Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal as a senior managing director. He arrives after a year at Icahn Associates, working for billionaire financier Carl Icahn. Before that, Wiliams spent a year and a half at Ogilvy Government Relations and four years at the National Association of Realtors.

Before these private-sector gigs, Williams worked for Democrats on the Hill. He was a senior policy adviser to then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., a staff director on a Senate Banking subcommittee, and a professional staff member on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.