U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. 83 Firms to SEC: Don't Tread on Me
The firms all signed onto an amicus brief opposing the regulator's effort to compel Covington & Burling to disclose confidential client information.
February 22, 2023 at 03:42 PM
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Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Eighty-three law firms, including many across the Am Law 100, signed onto an amicus brief this week in an effort to influence the outcome of Covington & Burling's dispute with regulators over a subpoena seeking the identities of nearly 300 clients accessed during a 2020 cyberattack.
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- Adams and Reese
- Akerman LLP
- Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co
- Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Arnold & Porter
- Ausley & McMullen
- Baker Botts
- Baker McKenzie
- Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
- Balch & Bingham
- Ballard Spahr
- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
- Brown Rudnick LLP
- Caplin Drysdale Chartered
- Clark Hill
- Clyde & Co
- Covington & Burling
- Cozen O'Connor
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Crowe & Dunlevy
- DLA Piper
- Debevoise & Plimpton
- Dechert
- Dentons
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Duane Morris
- Dykema Gossett
- Fenwick & West
- Fish & Richardson
- Goldberg Kohn Bell
- Goodwin Procter
- Goulston Storrs
- Greenbaum Rowe Smith
- Harness Dickey Pierce
- Haynes and Boone
- Hill Ward Henderson
- Hogan Lovells
- Honigman LLP
- Jenner & Block
- Jones Day
- K&L Gates
- Keker, Van Nest & Peters
- Kelley Drye & Warren
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Kindel & Anderson
- King & Spalding
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Latham & Watkins
- Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
- Loeb & Loeb
- Lowenstein Sandler
- McNees Wallace & Nurick
- Merchant Gould
- Milbank LLP
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Nutter McClennen Fish
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
- Paul Hastings
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Perkins Coie
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
- Potter Anderson & Corroon
- Robinson & Cole LLP
- Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
- Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Shook Hardy & Bacon
- Shutts & Bowen
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Smith, Gambrell & Russell
- Snell & Wilmer
- Spencer Fane
- Squire Patton Boggs
- Stoel Rives
- Thompson Hine
- Vinson & Elkins
- Vlp Law Group Llp
- Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
- Weintraub Tobin Chediak
- Williams & Connolly
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Winston & Strawn LLP
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