Gillian Lester (employment law) at the University of California at Los Angeles and Eric Talley (corporate law, law & economics) at the University of Southern California have accepted senior offers from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where they have been visiting this year.  Those are important lateral recruitments for Boalt, which had lost one of its top corporate law scholars, Stephen Choi, to NYU last year.  Talley’s departure is a particular blow to USC, which only two years ago lost its leading constitutional law scholar, Erwin Chemerinsky, to Duke.  This is also the second mid-career faculty member that Boalt has stolen from UCLA in the last year (the other was David Sklansky [criminal law & procedure]).