Orly Taitz isn’t going to like this one. Fed up with so-called “birthers,” lawmakers in Hawaii are considering a bill that will allow government officials to ignore repeated requests for the birth certificate of President Barack Obama. A state official told the Associated Press there remains “a cohort of people” that believe Obama was not born in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
Judge Kathleen O’Malley and Raymond Lohier Jr. have been nominated by President Barack Obama for federal appellate judgeships. O’Malley has been nominated for the Federal Circuit. She has been a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio since 1994. She also teaches patent litigation at Case Western Reserve University School of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Barack Obama? That’s not such a bad idea according to a George Washington law professor. Jeffrey Rosen argues in a column published in Friday’s Washington Post that many of the characteristics that have drawn critics of President Obama are just the qualities that are needed on the high court. “Though Obama has struggled [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
President Barack Obama has appointed two lawyers with whom he has close personal ties to the Legal Services Corporation. Martha Minow is the Dean of Harvard Law School, where she has taught for nearly thirty years. Her research focuses on equality, human rights, law and social change, and religion and pluralism. Minow was a law clerk [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 11, 2009
President Barack Obama announced Friday his intent to nominate six individuals as United States Attorneys. Dennis Burke is nominated for US Attorney for the District of Arizona, He is a Senior Advisor to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. He graduated the University of Arizona College of Law. Steven Dettelbach is nominated for US Attorney [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Obama administration has released salary information for its 46 staff lawyers. The highest paid is Gregory B. Craig, whose tiles are Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President. The Yale Law School graduate, who held the same position in the Clinton administration, pulls down $172,200 per year. Rounding out the top five: Virginia R. Canter, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 10, 2009
The Podesta Group has added at least six principals this year. Podesta saw a 44% rise in gross lobbying revenue from 2007 to 2008. So far this year, the firm has filed 18 registrations for new federal lobbying clients, including Deloitte, Michelin North America, and Sallie Mae. The firm’s existing clients include Google, Wal-Mart, and Reed Elsevier, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Attorneys working assignments under the federal will see their fees bumped up from $100 to $110 per hour, with funds recently appropriated by Congress. The CJA was enacted in 1964 to establish a comprehensive system for appointing and compensating lawyers to represent defendants financially unable to retain counsel in federal criminal proceedings. Federal defender organizations, together with [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has joined McKenna Long & Aldridge as an independent consultant, for the firm’s government affairs practice in Washington, DC. As a senior strategic adviser and independent consultant, Dean will consult with clients on a variety of public policy issues, with a focus on health care, energy, and public-private partnerships [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
Brunswick Group LLC today announced that Michele Davis, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs and Director of Policy Planning, has joined the firm’s Washington, DC office as Partner. Also today, Brunswick announced that Julie Andreeff Jensen, who most recently served as Pennsylvania’s Get-Out-the-Vote Director for Barack Obama, has joined the firm as [...]
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