IP and Data Privacy Attorney Alan Friel Joins BakerHostetler in LA
Alan Friel, noted media convergence and privacy attorney, left Edwards Wildman to join BakerHostetler’s Intellectual Property Group and its Privacy…
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U.S. Supreme Court Extends the Scope of Whistleblower Law in Mutual Funds to Include Law Firms
The U.S. Supreme Court held this Tuesday that the application of the Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower provisions also protects privately held contractors…
Akerman Hires Three New Commercial Litigators in Chicago
Akerman LLP announced enhancement of the firm’s financial services sector with the addition of three commercial litigators at its newly…
Richard Horn Leaves Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Join Dentons
Richard B. Horn, former senior counsel and special advisor with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has joined Dentons as…
Stephen Obie Joins Jones Day Leaving U.S. Futures Trading Commission
Stephen Obie, the Regional Administrator/Regional Counsel of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s New York office has joined Jones Day…
Disney Stops Funding Boy Scouts over Scouts’ Anti-gay Policy
The Walt Disney Company has announced that it will stop funding Boy Scouts of America from 2015, because of its…
Former Dewey & LeBoeuf Partner Challenges Capital Loan Liability
Charles Landgraf, the former managing partner of the Washington office of Dewey & LeBoeuf, successfully challenged his liability for a…
St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster Joins Graves Injury Law Group
Attorney Bill Foster, the outgoing mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, has joined the Graves Injury Law Group founded by Foster’s…
Idaho Passes Law to Throttle Exposure of Animal Abuse in Its Dairies
Idaho’s Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter signed into law Senate Bill No. 1337, heavily criticized as the Ag-Gag bill. The new…
Recreational Marijuana Legalization Makes It to Official Ballot in Alaska
Legalizing recreational marijuana had made it to the official ballot in Alaska as confirmed by Mead Treadwell, the state’s lieutenant…
Cuccinelli Floats Pro-Gun Law Firm
Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has floated a new law firm along with three other partners to defend…
Patton Boggs again in Merger Talks
This time, Washington D.C. law firm Patton Boggs LLP is in merger talks with international law firm Squire Sanders LLP. …