By C. Ryan Barber | November 28, 2017
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to undo the Trump administration's designation of Mick Mulvaney as the interim leader of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, rejecting an argument that the White House unlawfully sidestepped the appointment of another lawyer from within the Obama-era agency.
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By Charles Sipos and Mica Simpson | November 28, 2017
Scattered among the dictionary definitions for “natural,” one reads: “formulated by human reason alone rather than revelation.” This definition…
By C. Ryan Barber | November 27, 2017
Anthony Alexis, the former enforcement director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is joining Goodwin Procter, where he will lead the firm's consumer financial services enforcement practice as a partner. Goodwin Procter was among several firms that recently had expressed interest in hiring a top official from the Obama-era agency, whose leadership was thrown into tumult over the weekend. Two acting directors of the agency, replacing Richard Cordray, have assumed power.
By C. Ryan Barber | November 24, 2017
Richard Cordray named Leandra English, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's chief of staff, as deputy director—putting her in place to become acting director. The White House moved to block the appointment, naming Mick Mulvaney, director of OMB, as the leader of the Obama-era agency.
By Jenna Greene | October 31, 2017
Veterans groups are urging Trump to veto a bill that would wipe out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's arbitration rule. Think of it as the lobbying equivalent of the Charge of the Light Brigade: a doomed but valiant effort.
By C. Ryan Barber | October 25, 2017
"What the legal system is terrible at is remedying individual injuries because it's so expensive," Mayer Brown partner Andrew Pincus said Wednesday at a U.S. Chamber litigation conference. Pincus was a lead attorney in a suit the Chamber filed to challenge a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule to restrict the use of mandatory arbitration clauses that keep consumers out of court. The U.S. Senate late Tuesday blocked the rule.
By R. Robin McDonald | Daily Report | October 10, 2017
Equifax's King & Spalding counsel joined with some plaintiffs lawyers to ask the federal Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation to consolidate in Atlanta hundreds of cases that have been filed against the Atlanta-based credit bureau and assign them to a judge with King & Spalding ties.
By Jenna Greene | September 20, 2017
"Small nations have fought for their very survival with less resources and resourcefulness than these antagonists." That's what U.S. District Judge William Conner in Manhattan wrote in 1987 about the false advertising battle between the makers of Tylenol and Advil. Connor died in 2009. But the fight goes on. And on. Like a pounding, 30-year migraine.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 31, 2017
Floyd Mayweather's defeat over Conor McGregor wasn't the only boxing win worth talking about this past week—lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers scored a total knockout of dozens of class actions brought over a 2015 bout dubbed the “Fight of the Century.”
By Marcia Coyle | August 22, 2017
Don't call the Washington boutique shop Gupta Wessler an "anti-Trump law firm," said its founder, Deepak Gupta. A number of Trump-related policies fall squarely within the firm's core mission, he said, putting the lawyers there—an expanding group—in court in major fights against the White House.
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