Also: Bradley adds real estate associate
Mark Baugh Nashville-based Baker Donelson shareholder Mark Baugh has been elected to the law firm’s board of directors for a three-year term. The employment attorney has led Baker Donelson’s diversity committee for more than a decade. He joined the firm in 2004 and is a Vanderbilt School of Law graduate.
Bradley adds real estate associate Bradley Arant Boult Cummings has added attorney Robert Leonard as an associate in the Nashville office. He earned bachelor’s and law degrees at the University of Tennessee and previously practiced with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. Leonard joins Bradley’s real estate group, where he focuses on commercial transactions, leasing, land development and lending.
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(Reuters) - While major corporations and some law firms stopped contributions to lawmakers after the deadly Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, few of the legal industries’ most powerful political spenders have publicly taken similar steps.
A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump protests against the election of President-elect Joe Biden, outside the Colorado State Capitol in Denver, Colorado, U.S. January 17, 2021. REUTERS/Bob Strong
Five people including a police officer lost their lives as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the seat of Congress, fueled by Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud.
Firms including Covington & Burling, outside counsel for President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign, and lobbying giants Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck issued statements condemning the violence, but stopped short of pledging to suspend donations from their political action committees.
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IRANIAN SCHOLAR CHARGED WITH VIOLATING FARA: The Justice Department announced today it has arrested an Iranian political scientist and scholar for acting as an unregistered agent of the Islamic Republic. According to a complaint unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn,
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