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March 06, 2018 | The Recorder

Public-private litigation partnerships are "becoming more and more customary when it comes to claims that require a speciality that the counties or the cities don't have, necessarily. It seems like it's kind of a growing area,” San Francisco-based whistleblower lawyer Yosef Peretz says.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

March 06, 2018 | National Law Journal

Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, should face disciplinary action for using television appearances to promote the Republican candidate in Alabama's special U.S. Senate election last year, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said in a report to the White House on Tuesday.

By C. Ryan Barber | Cogan Schneier |

5 minute read

February 28, 2018 | National Law Journal

"If we think it's a good case, we'll bring it. If not, we're happy to get out of the way and let you all do it by yourselves," Mick Mulvaney, the acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, told state attorneys general Wednesday in Washington.

By C. Ryan Barber |

4 minute read

February 27, 2018 | National Law Journal

"He's not bashful," Gibson Dunn's Ted Olson said. "He knows he's in the middle of this thing. He knows that he's the vote that's going to tip it one way or the other. And he knows how he's going to come out. But he decided to be very coy."

By C. Ryan Barber

4 minute read

February 26, 2018 | The Recorder

"New technologies have spawned new regulatory challenges. A phone company is no longer just a phone company," Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote Monday for the unanimous en banc panel.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

February 22, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

"Family reunification was a hallmark of the 1965 act. It's now been given a derogatory term of 'chain migration,'" New York immigration lawyer Michael Wildes, former mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, said in one TV appearance. Wildes is counsel to first lady Melania Trump and her parents, who were in the news this week amid questions about their U.S. residency status.

By C. Ryan Barber | Cogan Schneier |

5 minute read

February 22, 2018 | National Law Journal

“They've been encouraging people to report internally. Now they have to think twice about that because they're essentially encouraging people to report internally and go into harm's way.”

By C. Ryan Barber

7 minute read

February 20, 2018 | National Law Journal

“[AT&T and Time Warner] have fallen far short of establishing that this enforcement action was selective—that is, that there 'exist persons similarly situated who have not been prosecuted,'” U.S. District Senior Judge Richard Leon said in a ruling Tuesday.

By C. Ryan Barber |

4 minute read

February 16, 2018 | The Recorder

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has signed on to lobby for the Chinese solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar Inc. as the company pushes to open a U.S. factory and lower tariffs on imported solar cells.

By C. Ryan Barber |

3 minute read

February 16, 2018 | National Law Journal

A grand jury in Washington on Friday indicted the Russian organization Internet Research Agency, along with several other associated companies and individuals, on eight charges related to unlawful interference in the 2016 presidential election.

By Cogan Schneier | C. Ryan Barber |

4 minute read