Campaign finance spending from Big Law firms and lawyers; state and federal judicial nominations
By Miriam Rozen | September 13, 2017
Jenny Durkan, a former federal prosecutor who joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in early 2015 to open the firm's Seattle office, has taken a leave of absence from the firm as she mounts a mayoral bid in her hometown. Ed Murray, Seattle's soon-to-be-former-mayor, is set to resign amid a sex abuse scandal.
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By Brian Baxter | September 11, 2017
Ralph Baxter Jr., a former CEO of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who retired to West Virginia four years ago, will announce Tuesday that he is going to run for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. He spoke with The American Lawyer about the path that led him to pursue a new career in public service.
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By Marcia Coyle | September 11, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday urged an Arizona federal judge to end the contempt prosecution of former sheriff Joe Arpaio, the recipient of a presidential pardon that critics contend diminished the power of the judiciary. The judge in the case has set a hearing for October.
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By Michael Booth | September 8, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court ruled Friday that the state Election Law Enforcement Commission may proceed with an investigation into alleged campaign finance law violations by Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo and his treasurer.
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By Miriam Rozen | September 8, 2017
How did five-year-old Manhattan litigation boutique Holwell Shuster & Goldberg gather 65 former lawmakers to back its gerrymandering arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court?
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By Erin Mulvaney | September 7, 2017
Major U.S. companies have pushed back against the Trump administration's plan to rescind the Obama-era authorization program that allowed an estimated 800,000 undocumented immigrants to remain in the country. Yet, if the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is terminated and Congress doesn't craft new rules, any defiant companies that move to shield workers from deportation could be exposed to compliance headaches and legal hurdles, employment lawyers say.
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By Brian Baxter | September 7, 2017
King & Spalding partner Bobby Burchfield, the Trump Organization's top ethics counsel, and ex-Hogan Lovells partner Ty Cobb, who joined the White House this summer as a member of the president's legal defense team in special counsel Robert Mueller III's Russia investigation, saw their names emerge in two eyebrow-raising reports.
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By Cogan Schneier | September 7, 2017
The political firebrand and informal Trump adviser filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit under the District of Columbia's Anti-SLAPP law.
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By Mike Scarcella | September 4, 2017
The Trump administration is moving forward with a spate of new nominees for the U.S. Justice Department and regulatory agencies, pulling lawyers from Big Law and in-house legal departments for top positions.
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By Cogan Schneier | September 1, 2017
News reports indicate the president's lawyers submitted legal arguments to the special counsel and his team about why the president cannot be charged with obstruction of justice and claimed fired FBI Director Jim Comey is an unreliable witness.
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