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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. Senate has kicked off the complicated process of coordinating and passing multi-committee legislation designed to bolster U.S. technological capabilities, expand the U.S. political, diplomatic, and economic toolkit for dealing with China, and curb China’s growing geopolitical influence.   The effort has garnered strong bipartisan support and is likely to yield landmark legislation that will be enacted with strong bipartisa...

Presented by With Daniel Lippman BUSINESS GROUPS CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED BY CDC MASK GUIDANCE: The Biden administration’s announcement Thursday that fully vaccinated Americans can ditch their masks in most situations is undoubtedly a major milestone in the country’s fight against Covid-19. But trade groups representing the businesses, and a union representing the workers who will now be tasked with enforcing mask-wearing for unvaccinated people, are now scrambling to parse what the guidance mea...

The transition from LIBOR represents a potential change in the interest rate on a bond. Background On April 6, 2021, New York Governor Cuomo signed into law legislation...

Agriculture your username 4 hours ago BASF Corporation, Bayer Cropscience LP, and Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, which are intervenor defendants in a D.C. District Court lawsuit regarding the herbicide dicamba, filed separate answers on Tuesday to the plaintiffs’ amended complaint.  The amended complaint, filed by two agricultural trade associations the American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers Inc. against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on April 27, reiterated the pl...

Clay joined the firm’s public policy team in Washington, D.C. His former chief of staff, Yvette Cravins, also went to the firm as a senior counsel. She worked for Clay for nearly seven years, and before that she was counsel for the Democratic members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Clay served in Congress from 2001 to 2021. He was on the House Financial Services, Natural Resources, and Oversight and Reform committees during his tenure.  ADVERTISEMENT “My service to Missouri’...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The goal of a real estate transaction is generally to achieve a transfer of real property mutually sought by buyer and seller. But as a recent arbitration win secured by Arent Fox illustrates, a go-to litigator is sometimes required to address disputes involving real estate deals.   The matter presented a fact pattern too familiar to parties involved in real estate transactions. A real estate broker made a claim against Arent Foxs c...

Bottom line Alex Gangitano American Fair Credit Council, an association of debt settlement companies, hired Allon Advocacy LLC to work on issues related to consumer unsecured debt settlement, debt relief and debt consolidation. Steven Boms, former legislative director to ex-Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), will work on the account. The RLJ Companies LLC, a holding company for investments in media, entertainment, automotive and financial industries, hired Arent Fox LLP to work on ...

10 Things in Politics: Trumpworld questions McCarthys future 10 Things in Politics, your weekday look at the biggest stories in DC and beyond. Heres what were talking about: One thing to look out for today: President Joe Biden is set to speak about the April jobs report at 11:30 a.m. in the East Room. Rep. Kevin McCarthy and then-President Donald Trump in 2020. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times/POOL/Getty Images One ad...

Special purpose acquisition companies ("SPACs"), it seems, are everywhere. SPACs have been around for decades Arnold & Porter A recent Delaware court decision, In re WeWork Litigation, put a spotlight on the risk of corporate employees and directors destroying privilege by communicating through email. Cooley LLP The outside pressure has been on. As reported by Bloomberg, "[e]nvironmental advocates in cities including New York, Miami, San Francisco, London and Zurich targeted BlackRock for a...

Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has joined a Washington-based firm, he and the company announced this week. Jones ...