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January 24, 2018 | National Law Journal

Ohlhausen, who joined the FTC from Wilkinson Barker Knauer, would return to a court where she formerly clerked.

By C. Ryan Barber |

6 minute read

January 23, 2018 | National Law Journal

“Indeed, I think it is fair to say that the previous governing philosophy here was to aggressively 'push the envelope' in pursuit of the 'mission;' that we were the 'good guys' and the 'new sheriff in town,' out to fight the 'bad guys.' Simply put: that is what is going to be different,” Mulvaney told CFPB staff on Tuesday.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

January 22, 2018 | New York Law Journal

According to the SEC, former inspectors from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board used information about upcoming audit reviews to scrub their work on behalf of KPMG clients.

By Colby Hamilton | C. Ryan Barber |

3 minute read

January 22, 2018 | The Recorder

U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Jan. 19 ruled the CFPB had failed to show that any restitution was appropriate. He ordered CashCall—represented by lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Latham & Watkins—to pay a penalty of about $10.3 million, the statutory minimum.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

January 19, 2018 | National Law Journal

Wells Fargo & Co. has reached a settlement with a former branch manager who claimed she was fired for blowing the whistle on employees who had been opening accounts without permission. Federal regulators earlier ordered the whistleblower be paid $577,000. Wells Fargo had appealed that order.

By C. Ryan Barber |

4 minute read

January 19, 2018 | National Law Journal

A team from Hogan Lovells met with Justice Department lawyers in December to talk about the case. Main Justice backed Venezuela at earlier stages in the long-running fight over the 2010 seizure of an American company's oil drilling rigs and other property.

By C. Ryan Barber |

7 minute read

January 18, 2018 | National Law Journal

"This case should never have been brought in the first place. We're pleased that the bureau has decided to withdraw a lawsuit," Lori Alvino McGill, a Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz partner, said about the CFPB's decision Thursday to drop a lawsuit against payday lenders in Kansas federal court.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

January 17, 2018 | National Law Journal

The CFPB will start soliciting comments on a host of matters—including enforcement, supervision and rule-making. Up first: civil investigative demands. Here are three things companies really don't like about the CFPB's investigative demands.

By C. Ryan Barber |

7 minute read

January 16, 2018 | National Law Journal

"The conviction that the tweets were not law is rooted in beliefs about what law does and should look like and how it is and should be made," the Harvard Law Review article said.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

January 11, 2018 | The Recorder

"That's the fun thing about this technology right now. Everyone is trying to throw the hardest cases at it—weather in Michigan, driving in a rotary in Boston or the Pittsburgh left," David Strickland, former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said in 2016.

By C. Ryan Barber |

4 minute read