By C. Ryan Barber | May 2, 2017
"While we hear a lot of fabricated outrage about the impact of regulations, there is far less genuine discussion about the real costs of a failure to act," Elliot Kaye, a U.S. Consumer Product Safety commissioner, said recently in voting with the majority to advance new regulations for table saws. Democrats still hold a majority at the product-safety commission, posing one block on the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda.
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By Marcia Coyle | May 2, 2017
Noel Francisco, still awaiting a hearing on his nomination as U.S. solicitor general, has promised to divest his interests in technology, financial and pharmaceutical companies—including Apple Inc., Vanguard Financials and Merck & Co.—if he wins Senate confirmation. In his financial disclosure form, the former Jones Day partner reported $4.6M in his partnership share plus earnings supplement.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 2, 2017
The confirmation hearing of Makan Delrahim to lead the Justice Department's Antitrust Division—which was postponed from April 26—could be set as early as next week. The former Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lawyer's ethics agreement, publicly disclosed this week, outlines a recusal roadmap.
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By Sue Reisinger | May 1, 2017
Kara Brockmeyer, former chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, is joining Debevoise & Plimpton's Washington, D.C., office as a partner and member of the white-collar and regulatory defense and the strategic crisis response and solutions groups, the firm announced Monday.
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By Charles Toutant | May 1, 2017
Salomon Melgen's conviction on Medicare fraud charges is unlikely to alter the landscape in the corruption case against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, according to legal observers.
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By Katelyn Polantz | May 1, 2017
Giovanna Cinelli and Kenneth Nunnenkamp join Morgan Lewis as partners, with Cinelli tapped to co-lead the firm's international trade, national security and economic sanctions practice.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 1, 2017
Once a science-fiction fantasy, self-driving vehicles are the new frontier for the automobile industry—and tech giants, century-old automakers and upstart electric car manufacturers are all speeding toward it. That's meant shelling out big bucks to lobby shops to engage with regulators and policy officials. Here's a snapshot of some of the recent spending by top players in the industry.
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By David Ruiz | May 1, 2017
Julie Brill joins the company after roughly a year with Hogan Lovells, where she served as co-director of the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice.
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By Erin Mulvaney | April 28, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday invoked a rare public-policy exception that "threatens to destabilize" arbitration awards in future cases, a federal appeals judge said in her dissent. "The court's decision to vacate the arbitral award in this case contradicts decades of precedent delineating a narrow public policy exception and threatens as a practical matter to destabilize many, if not most, arbitral awards," Judge Nina Pillard wrote.
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By ROBERT STORACE | April 28, 2017
A decision this week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has paved the way for attorneys to—for the first time ever—bring class action lawsuits on behalf of veterans.
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