Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. In your inbox this week: With President-elect Joseph Biden preparing to take office, law firms are expecting more aggressive regulation and enforcement—and making preparations of their own. Plus: Months after being ousted as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman finds a new home in Big Law, and the Federal Trade Commission faces a dilemma ahead of its expected antitrust suit against Facebook. And Kirkland has snagged one of Washington’s most prominent congressional investigations lawyers. Scroll down for more.

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