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Budget Would Give Becerra 19 New Lawyers to Fight Trump

Gov. Jerry Brown's revised state budget proposal gives the Attorney General's Office an additional $6.5 million and 31 positions to handle the "new legal workload" associated with fighting Trump administration policies.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

NY Tax Boutique Opens in DC With DOJ, Baker & Hostetler Alums

Two tax experts with high-profile government and private practice experience have joined New York boutique Kostelanetz & Fink and will launch the firm's new Washington, D.C., office.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

'Echo Is Not Spying On You,' Amazon Lawyer Declares

Months after Apple faced off with the FBI over an order to unlock an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino shooting investigation, Amazon.com Inc. was thrust center-stage in its own digital privacy debate when Arkansas prosecutors demanded data from a murder suspect's Echo device. Amazon initially objected to the demands last year, only to later grant access after the suspect consented to the release of the data. Speaking Thursday at a Consumer Federation of America conference in Washington, an in-house lawyer at Amazon stated flatly: "No, Echo is not spying on you."
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Removal of Trump's Muslim Comments Raises Travel Ban Questions

The removal of comments from a campaign webpage used to block Trump's travel ban executive orders could come up during a Ninth Circuit hearing next week.
9 minute read

Litigation Daily

Rod Rosenstein's Deal with the Devil

How did Rod Rosenstein, who for two weeks basked in the glow of being one of the few Trump appointees that Democrats didn't despise, agree to go along with this? Was this the price of being the DAG? Calling Faust—Mephistopheles has a very attractive political appointment for you.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Christie's Chances of Getting Top FBI Post Seen as Remote

Chris Christie's name has been mentioned as a potential replacement for FBI Director James Comey Jr., but New Jersey lawyers and political observers say the governor's chances of getting the job are slim.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

SDNY Short-Lister, Morgan Lewis Partner Helps Guide Showtime's 'Billions'

For those who appreciate verisimilitude in their cable TV dramas, a highlight of this week's "Billions" season finale on Showtime came when a young prosecutor told her boss, a fictional U.S. attorney, that she was leaving for a real-life law firm. The show smartly name-dropped Sullivan & Cromwell—the place to be for upwardly mobile securities fraud experts looking to trade a government paycheck for something much, much more lucrative.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Antitrust Chief Baer Returns to Arnold & Porter

Top Justice Department antitrust lawyer Bill Baer is returning to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where he led the antitrust practice for several years, the firm said Wednesday.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Solicitor General Nominee Pledges 'Independence and Candor'

Noel Francisco sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, even though some senators appeared preoccupied by President Donald Trump's Tuesday firing of FBI Director James Comey.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Senate Hearing on DOJ Nominees Pivots to Comey

The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Noel Francisco for solicitor general, Makan Delrahim to head the Antitrust Division and Steven Engel to oversee the Office of Legal Counsel, but committee Democrats used their time to address the FBI director's termination.
9 minute read

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