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By Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle | July 17, 2017
Elena Kagan was far along in the new Obama administration's vetting process for an important U.S. Justice Department job when she got a call from the White House. That job she was in line to get? Well, the White House wanted her to do something else. Kagan was asked to be the U.S. solicitor general instead and was nominated for the position on Jan. 5, 2009. The rest is history.
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By Jenna Greene | July 17, 2017
Hogan Lovells partner Ty Cobb did his firm a big favor. He's resigning.
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By Michael Booth | July 14, 2017
New Jersey lawmakers have introduced bills that would prohibit the state from providing the Trump administration's "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" with any information about the state's voters that is not already publicly available.
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By Marcia Coyle | July 14, 2017
Federal prosecutors have taken it on the chin in recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that pushed back against the government's expansive reading of federal criminal laws. The latest setback came Thursday, when a federal appeals court voided the corruption conviction of a once-powerful New York state Assembly speaker. Here's a snapshot of the McDonnell decision and other rulings, four of which were issued by the Roberts Court, that restricted prosecution offices.
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By Cogan Schneier | July 13, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a portion of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' security clearance documents in response to a public-records lawsuit, but at a subsequent court hearing, attorneys were still quibbling over the disclosure.
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By Andrew Denney and Josefa Velasquez | July 13, 2017
For federal prosecutors, the ruling by the Second Circuit to throw out the conviction of former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thursday highlights the challenges of winning public corruption cases in the post-'McDonnell' era.
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By Erin Mulvaney | July 13, 2017
Democratic U.S. senators grilled President Donald Trump's picks for the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday over their ability to assert impartiality in disputes at the agency between companies and workers' rights. Littler Mendelson shareholder William Emanuel and OSHA lawyer Marvin Kaplan appeared on Capitol Hill for their confirmation hearing.
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By Marcia Coyle | July 12, 2017
Financial disclosure reports can be fairly routine. A lawyer leaving a firm reveals annual compensation, a list of clients who received legal services, and maybe some investments. But that wasn't all Courtney Elwood, now general counsel to the CIA, put in her report recently. She noted something else: office furniture that she planned to retain from her former firm Kellogg Hansen.
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By Elizabeth Lampert | July 12, 2017
PR 101 would advise anyone in crisis that addressing the media quickly is imperative. It's not ideal Donald Trump Jr.'s story rapidly changed, but in short order, he leapfrogged the New York Times to get his message out there--and that counts.
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By Jenna Greene | July 12, 2017
Having a bad day? Hate your job? Take some solace in the fact that at least you don't represent a member of the Trump family.
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