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FTC Zapped on Data Privacy. What's the Reach?

You've probably seen the ruling: decision here here's a link Sounds narrow, right? Not exactly. That's a problem for the FTC. Wiley Rein Scott Delacourt But there's more. under FTC investigation Ropes & Gray Doug Meal

Compliance Roundup: FARA Advisory Opinions

here my story here Covington & Burling Robert Kelner told me in my report at NLJ Some other stories that caught my eye.... A new report reports at Corporate Counsel reports reports James McGinnis Sheppard Mullin here Andrew Finch said in prepared remarks reports here

Who Got the Work

according Doug Kantor Steptoe & Johnson LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell Paul Mishkin report Melissa Lessenberry Thomas Silverstein Kelly Rock here has hired a team Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Ed Pagano Ryan Thompson Vic Fazio wide-ranging agreement said James Stanton Hogan Lovells the firm recently lobbied for ZTE Robbins Arroyo Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd in California state court new suit seeks to certify a class Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Debevoise & Plimpton Mary Jo White removed a previously filed securities suit denied Medtronic's request for summary judgment James Dowden

Comings (and One Going): New Hires & Promotions

  • Mary Beth Buchanan, a former federal prosecutor and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner partner, has landed in a general counsel role at Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange operator. Buchanan was a President George W. Bush-appointed former U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh from 2001 to 2009.
  • Commercial insurer CNA named Garrett Williams as chief compliance officer. Williams had spent 20 years at State Farm, where he led the insurance company's enterprise compliance and ethics department.
  • Bao Nguyen and Ted Dowd were named deputy chief counsels at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. They join Charles Steele as deputy chief counsels in OCC's office of the chief counsel. OCC said it is recruiting a permanent chief counsel to succeed Karen Solomon, who is retiring at the end of August. Nguyen, who will serve as principal deputy chief counsel, formerly was senior counsel in the legal division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dowd will supervise the OCC's legislative and regulatory activities and oversees the securities and corporate practices divisions.
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  • Howard Plotkin, the New York-based U.S. compliance chief at Royal Bank of Canada, has left the company, according to Bloomberg. The report said Plotkin was at least the third executive to leave in the past two months. David Lang, RBC's global chief compliance officer, was handling Plotkin's duties while a search was underway for a successor.