By Meghan Tribe | October 31, 2017
The Washington, D.C.-based firm has inked an agreement with Fernando Quintana Merino, a longtime Brazilian in-house counsel and consultant, to expand its offerings in the corruption-plagued country.
By C. Ryan Barber | October 31, 2017
Gail Ennis, a Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr securities litigation partner nominated for inspector general at the Social Security Administration, reported earning $2 million in partnership income, according to newly disclosed ethics documents.
By C. Ryan Barber | October 31, 2017
A Washington federal district judge this month ordered a former lawyer for Paul Manafort to testify before the grand jury convened as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, according to a court ruling unsealed Monday. U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl Howell rejected the argument that the testimony, from an Akin Gump partner in Washington, would violate two shields that provide some protection to attorney communication and work product.
By C. Ryan Barber | Cogan Schneier | October 31, 2017
Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has been assigned to oversee the special counsel's case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
By Erin Mulvaney | October 30, 2017
The fate of the Obama-era regulation that made millions of more workers eligible for overtime pay remains unresolved after the U.S. Labor Department on Monday moved to defend the agency's power to set such a rule. “There is a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety and ambiguity,” one lawyer said. “This might be the biggest mess I've ever seen. There are a lot of complicated issues."
By Amanda Bronstad | October 30, 2017
Lawyers filing dozens of lawsuits over the opioid crisis have taken a page out of the Big Tobacco playbook—but not the whole book.
By C. Ryan Barber | October 30, 2017
“There is no evidence that Mr. Manafort or the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government," Kevin Downing, formerly of Miller & Chevalier, told reporters after his client, Paul Manafort, pleaded not guilty in Washington court to conspiracy and other charges.
By Colby Hamilton | October 30, 2017
The unsealed indictment of Paul Manafort on Monday is the first to be produced by U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's actions in the 2016 elections.
By P.J. Dannunzio | October 30, 2017
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has blocked most of President Donald Trump's prohibition of transgender military service, while leaving the ban on Defense Department funding of gender reassignments intact.
By Tony Mauro | October 30, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court won't weigh in on a California dispute over the payments some municipalities require developers to make to support low-income housing.
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