With the Trump transition team’s selection of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, several Washington law firms—especially those with conservative leaning white-collar lawyers and lobbyists—could benefit from ties to the Alabama Republican.
“I think he’s well-respected by a lot of top lawyers in the city,” said George Terwilliger III, a McGuireWoods partner who served as deputy attorney general to President George H.W. Bush and worked on George W. Bush’s legal challenge for the presidency in 2000. “I think they will welcome someone with an entrepreneurial bent and who wants to free American businesses to create jobs rather than use criminal law as an overzealous enforcement tool.”
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