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R.C. Hammond, a spokesman for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, said in a tweet that Tuesday would be his last day on the job. He is returning to the Herald Group, a strategic consulting firm where he...
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• Manatt, Phelps & Phillips hired Gregg Nunziata away from the office of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to serve as a partner in the firm’s federal regulatory and government practice. He has been...
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• TECHNOLOGY. Booking.com, a division of the Priceline Group, hired its first lobbyists in Washington at the tech advocacy firm Franklin Square. Disclosure forms say the firm will be lobbying on...
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Kevin O’Connor, who has spent the last 16 years with the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), is forming his own firm called O’Connor CARES Solutions. He most recently served as assistant...
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Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) has joined Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer as a senior counsel. Dodd left the Motion Picture Association of America last September after serving as its CEO since 2011....
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• Bracewell hired Stoney Burke as a principal to serve in its policy resolution group. Prior to that, Burke served as chief of staff to Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas).• Scott Widmeyer has been named the...
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Chartwell Strategy Group launched this week, becoming one of K Street’s newest firms. Filled with bipartisan operatives, and led by Matt Epperly, Oswaldo Palomo and David Tamasi, it will focus on both...
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• The Williams Companies, an Oklahoma-based natural gas pipeline firm, has named Amanda Mertens Campbell as the head of its Washington office. She most recently worked at General Electric, but...
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EDUCATION. The student loan company Navient added Bockorny Group to its roster of lobbying firms. Navient has been accused in a class-action lawsuit of misleading borrowers about how to qualify for...
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Jonathan Grossman, a partner in Cozen O’Connor’s business law department, has been named the co-managing partner of the firm’s Washington office.Megan Van Etten is leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Four additional firms have notified the Justice Department that they would be working for the government of Saudi Arabia, bringing the count of U.S. firms representing the...
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• CRD Associates has promoted Lindsey Trischler to senior policy associate. She came to the firm in 2016 and previously worked as an advocacy associate at the International Myeloma Foundation.• The...
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MINING. Squire Patton Boggs is the newest lobbying firm for the Pebble Limited Partnership, a mining company that is looking to build copper and precious mineral mines in Alaska. In January, the...
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Thomas Zutic, a longtime lawyer at DLA Piper, is the new chairman of the firm’s trademark, copyright and media practice in its Washington office. He holds other roles at the firm, including serving as...
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• Akin Gump partner Stacey Mitchell has joined the Environmental Law Institute’s leadership counsel. She has also served as deputy general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency and, prior to...
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Since the beginning of the year, there have been more than 70 filings with the Justice Department to disclose new lobbying contracts with foreign governments or parties, including almost 20 this month...
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Julie Castle has been named the new CEO of the Best Friends Animal Society, an animal welfare group advocating to eliminate euthanasia in animal shelters by 2025. She’ll begin the role on April 16....
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• EQUALITY RIGHTS. Former Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) is among the newest lobbyists for American Unity Fund, an advocacy group funded by GOP donor Paul Singer that works to advance LGBT rights issues,...
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The lobbying firm Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, also known as CRD Associates, has launched a communications practice, and the firm has brought on Matt Dennis to lead it. Prior to that, Dennis...
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• Rick Dearborn, who left the White House last month, has become a partner at the K Street firm The Cypress Group. Dearborn worked as deputy chief of staff at the White House and announced his...
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