Compliance Hot Spots: Compliance & Legal: Divergent Interests? | CFPB Work Dries Up | New Moves, Client Work & More
We've got a good dialogue going on the role of lawyers on compliance teams, and scroll down to check out some of the law firms on the big new cases making headlines.
July 03, 2018 at 09:00 PM
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No Lawyers on Your Compliance Team? Some Thoughts About That.
opening line McDermott Will & Emery Michael Peregrine recent comments Hui Chen I reached out recently to Peregrine to talk more about his thinking on compliance and the expanding role of the general counsel. Here are a few things Peregrine told me: On new issues for in-house lawyers: More reading: The General Counsel as Key Corporate Social Responsibility Advisor
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Who Got the Work
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison a criminal prosecution Theodore Wells Jr. John Paul Del Monaco Andrew Genser joining Eric Komitee Audrey Strauss Geoffrey Berman Greenberg Traurig joined brought Sidley Austin Michael Borden registered introduced Hogan Lovells Gregory Parisi warned Jon Kyl Covington & Burling Layth Elhassani according went before his financial disclosure Philip Beck Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott according
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Compliance Reading: The Impact of Trump's CFPB Bashing
brings a halt Ballard Spahr Alan Kaplinsky Davis Wright Tremaine Jonathan Engel new story up at NLJ Charles Rettig reports Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez financial disclosure here at NLJ June 29 decision here according Wall Street Journal reports here
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New Hires & Promotions (And One Departure)
nabbed Karan Bhatia Wilmer Hale Susan Molinari Kent Walker
- Alanna Rutherford joins Visa Inc. as vice president of global litigation from Boies Schiller Flexner, where she was at one point both the youngest and the sole African-American equity partner.
- Altamont Capital Partners named Jennifer Mello as general counsel and chief compliance officer. Mello previously served as legal team managing director at credit investor TPG Special Situations Partners in San Francisco.
- Richard Kirby, formerly a litigation partner at Baker McKenzie, and Beth-ann Roth, previously a partner at the Capital Fund Law Group, are joining FisherBroyles as partners in Washington. Kirby and Roth will be a part of the firm's compliance counseling, fintech and blockchain team, among other areas.
- Tax lobbyists Russ Sullivan, Harold Hancock and Rosemary Becchi are leaving McGuireWoods Consulting for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, according to Politico.
- Starbucks Corp.'s compliance boss Matthew Swaya has left the company after 21 years. Swaya had been deputy general counsel and chief ethics and compliance officer. General counsel Rachel Gonzalez has temporarily assumed Swaya's role as the company looks for a successor.
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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
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