By Tom McParland | May 11, 2017
With the court nearing a vacancy crisis, at least five Republican lawyers have expressed interest. But one prominent state Republican said the process is "very much in limbo."
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By Katelyn Polantz | May 11, 2017
As a prospective law firm hire, Comey combines a prestigious resume with unusual political baggage.
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By Cheryl Miller | May 11, 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown's revised state budget proposal gives the Attorney General's Office an additional $6.5 million and 31 positions to handle the "new legal workload" associated with fighting Trump administration policies.
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By Miriam Rozen | May 11, 2017
Two tax experts with high-profile government and private practice experience have joined New York boutique Kostelanetz & Fink and will launch the firm's new Washington, D.C., office.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 11, 2017
Months after Apple faced off with the FBI over an order to unlock an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino shooting investigation, Amazon.com Inc. was thrust center-stage in its own digital privacy debate when Arkansas prosecutors demanded data from a murder suspect's Echo device. Amazon initially objected to the demands last year, only to later grant access after the suspect consented to the release of the data. Speaking Thursday at a Consumer Federation of America conference in Washington, an in-house lawyer at Amazon stated flatly: "No, Echo is not spying on you."
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By Cogan Schneier | May 11, 2017
The removal of comments from a campaign webpage used to block Trump's travel ban executive orders could come up during a Ninth Circuit hearing next week.
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By Jenna Greene | May 11, 2017
How did Rod Rosenstein, who for two weeks basked in the glow of being one of the few Trump appointees that Democrats didn't despise, agree to go along with this? Was this the price of being the DAG? Calling Faust—Mephistopheles has a very attractive political appointment for you.
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By Charles Toutant | May 10, 2017
Chris Christie's name has been mentioned as a potential replacement for FBI Director James Comey Jr., but New Jersey lawyers and political observers say the governor's chances of getting the job are slim.
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By Miriam Rozen | May 10, 2017
For those who appreciate verisimilitude in their cable TV dramas, a highlight of this week's "Billions" season finale on Showtime came when a young prosecutor told her boss, a fictional U.S. attorney, that she was leaving for a real-life law firm. The show smartly name-dropped Sullivan & Cromwell—the place to be for upwardly mobile securities fraud experts looking to trade a government paycheck for something much, much more lucrative.
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By Katelyn Polantz | May 10, 2017
Top Justice Department antitrust lawyer Bill Baer is returning to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where he led the antitrust practice for several years, the firm said Wednesday.
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