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From: Public Policy Law360 <news-q@law360.com> To: Subject: Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year Date: "Cue, 16 Jan 2018 09:51:00 -=0000 ;',Law360 Public Policy PUBLIC POLICY Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Law360 TOP NEWS L2,' Law360 Pro Say Podcast Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2017 Practice Group of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year. Read more » The Firms That Dominated In 2017 Law360's Firms of the Year rose above the competition with a combined 24 Practice Group of the Year awards after helping their clients win game- changing judgments and close record-breaking deals in 2017. Here's a closer look at how they landed at the top. Read more » Analysis Listen to our new podcast here Ex-US Attys Say Justice Best Served By Diverse Group Former U.S. attorneys interviewed by Law360 said that having a diverse group of people in the job does more than contribute to positive perceptions LAW FIRMS of the Department of Justice: it can build bridges, prevent abuse and help Akerman DOJ leadership make better decisions. Read more » Akin Gump Alston & Bird Gov't Must Pay Halted ACA Funds, Insurer Says Anderson & Kreiger The Trump administration indisputably flouted the Affordable Care Act by cutting off millions of dollars in reimbursement for reduced copays and Archer & Greiner deductibles, a nonprofit health insurer told the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer on Friday. Read more » Ausley & McMullen Baker McKenzie No Major Changes Needed For Tax Bill, Speaker Ryan Says BakerHostetler House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., acknowledged in an interview that aired Friday that Congress likely will need to make technical corrections to the $1.5 Ballard Spahr trillion tax bill passed by Congress at the end of last year but added that any Bancroft PLLC changes made likely would be small. Read more » Bangs McCullen Barnes & Thornburg Trump Extends Iran Sanctions Waiver But Wants Deal Remade Beasley Allen President Donald Trump has again extended a sanctions waiver granted to Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal, saying Friday it's the final time he will do so Beveridge & Diamond unless the deal is significantly overhauled, as his administration announced Bowman and Brooke additional sanctions against certain Iranian and related entities. Read more » Bracewell Brach Eichler Drug, Device Makers Cheer As FDA Punts Off-Label Policy The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday once again delayed a Brann & Isaacson controversial new policy related to off-label promotion, drawing cheers from Bredhoff & Kaiser drug and device makers that have decried the agency's approach. Read Caplin & Drysdale more » Cleary Gottlieb Cohen Milstein EFTA00032562 BANKING & SECURITIES Covington & Burling Crowell & Moring Supreme Court Agrees To Review SEC's In-House Judges Cullen Law Firm The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the hiring of U.S. Davis Polk Securities and Exchange Commission administrative law judges violates the Davis Wright Tremaine appointments clause of the Constitution, a case that could call into question the legitimacy of past rulings by the administrative judges. Read more » Debevoise & Plimpton Dentons Credit Union Argues It Has Power To Challenge CFPB Role Dewey & LeBoeuf A New York credit union on Friday attempted to convince a federal judge that Doar Rieck it has the power to bring a lawsuit seeking to challenge President Donald Trump's appointment of a White House official to lead the Consumer Downs Rachlin Financial Protection Bureau on an acting basis. Read more » Duane Morris Earthjustice ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL Emery Celli Epstein Becker Green Researcher Sues EPA For Access To Officials' Emails Faegre Baker An environmental researcher and Harvard University librarian on Friday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it has improperly withheld Fenwick & West emails he requested between Administrator Scott Pruitt and his chief of staff, Fish & Richardson as well as other employees. Read more » Fredericks Peebles Freshfields Coastal Senators Seek Ban On Drilling In Northeastern US A bipartisan congressional delegation representing the northeastern U.S. this Fried Frank week mounted legislative action aiming to shield the nation's pre-eminent Gibson Dunn fishing region from a White House plan that would open nearly all American Goldstein & Russell waters to oil and gas drilling next year. Read more » Goodwin Greenberg Traurig Fracking Case Now Moot, Ute Indian Tribe Tells 10th Circ. The Ute Indian Tribe on Thursday told the Tenth Circuit that an appeal of a Gupta Wessler lower court order striking down the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Hogan Lovells strengthening of regulations for fracking on federal and Native American Holland & Knight lands should be tossed, saying the case is moot because the rule at issue Horwood Marcus has been axed. Read more » Hughes Hubbard GOP Enviro Leaders Support Clean Power Plan Rollback Hunton & Williams A group of Senate Republicans told the U.S. Environmental Protection Jenner & Block Agency in a letter on Friday that they were on board with the agency's Jones Day proposal to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, saying the plan would Kelley Drye be disastrous for American communities and jobs. Read more » Kellogg Hansen Pa. Court Limits Review Over State's Use Of Gas Lease Funds King & Spalding Following a landmark Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling last year limiting Kirkland & Ellis the state's use of payments from gas leases on public lands, a panel of Labaton Sucharow judges has said that further review in the dispute will not include whether the Latham & Watkins funds can be put toward a conservation agency's operating costs. Read more Littler Mendelson Mayer Brown TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE McDermott Will McKool Smith DC Circ. Partly Revives Truckers' DOT Safety Records Suit Morgan Lewis The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected most of a suit from independent commercial truck drivers alleging the U.S. Department of Transportation Morrison & Foerster mishandled safety citation records that can hurt truckers' job prospects and Munger Tolles business reputations, saying there wasn't enough proof of actual harm, but Norton Rose Fulbright revived two drivers' claims. Read more » O'Melveny & Myers INSURANCE Ogletree Deakins Oles Morrison Fla. House Passes Bill Aimed At 3rd-Party Insurance Payouts Outten & Golden Park Jensen Bennett EFTA00032563 The Florida House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill designed to Paul Hastings curtail perceived abuses of a system that allows repair contractors to pursue Paul Weiss payment directly from property owners' insurance carriers, which the Perkins Coie insurance industry has blamed for increases in premiums. Read more » EMPLOYMENT Pillsbury Winthrop Proskauer Rose Trump Taps Morgan Lewis Vet To Round Out NLRB Quinn Emanuel President Donald Trump on Friday selected Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Reed Smith partner John Ring to fill the lone vacancy on the five-member National Labor Robbins Geller Relations Board, moving to restore a Republican majority that was lost Ropes & Gray following the departure of board chair Phil Miscimarra in December. Read more » Seeger Weiss Seyfarth Shaw Public Workers, Ill. AG Back Union Fees At High Court Sidley Austin The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Simpson Thacher Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to block state unions from making workers cover bargaining costs, arguing in Skadden briefs filed Friday in a pivotal case for public sector labor that so-called Steptoe & Johnson LLP agency fees are constitutional. Read more » Stradley Ronon Sullivan & Cromwell COMPETITION Susman Godfrey ABA Sections Warn Of Risks In Regulating Online Platforms Venable LLP The antitrust and international law sections at the American Bar Association Vinson & Elkins on Wednesday shared their concerns about the potential chilling effects of Weil Gotshal additional regulations for online platforms like e-commerce operations and White & Case search engines recently floated by the European Commission. Read more » Wiley Rein CONSUMER PROTECTION Williams & Connolly Willkie Farr CFPB Leadership Battle Heads To DC Circ. WilmerHale Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Deputy Director Leandra English on Wilson Sonsini Friday continued her fight to lead the powerful financial regulator by asking a Winston & Strawn federal appeals court to remove President Donald Trump's choice to serve as the bureau's acting director. Read more » Zuckerman Spaeder ZwillGen PLLC INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMPANIES Analysis 7-Eleven Inc. What You Need To Know About The Latest Steel Trade Fight AIXTRON SE President Donald Trump may be poised to impose sweeping restrictions on AT&T Inc. steel imports that would bring an end to a nearly yearlong saga examining AdvaMed the intersection of trade policy and U.S. national security interests. As the president mulls his next move, here's everything you need to know about one Aetna Inc. of the year's most intriguing trade battles. Read more » Aleris Corp. Allstate Corporation TAX American Bar Association High Court To Consider Internet Retail Taxes' Reach American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear South Dakota's challenge to Quill v. North Dakota, setting the stage for the high court to decide whether Apple Inc. states may compel retailers that do not have a physical presence within their Associated Press borders to collect and remit use tax. Read more » Association of Corporate Counsel Avalara Inc. Mnuchin Calls Attempts To Skirt SALT Cap 'Ridiculous' L Avvo Inc. U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday called efforts by states such as California, New York and New Jersey to limit the BNSF Railway scaling back of state and local tax deductions "ridiculous." Read more » Bank of America Corporation Bayer AG First Parts Of 'Urgent' Swiss Tax Plan Slotted For 2019 Blue Apron Inc. EFTA00032564 The Swiss government has announced that the first measures of its tax CVS Caremark Corporation reform plan could roll out by the start of 2019, citing the "urgent" need to keep Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Switzerland competitive in the wake of a global trend to lower corporate Network rates. Read more » CenturyLink Inc. IMMIGRATION Comcast Corporation DACA Deal Uncertain After Trump's Derogatory Comments DXC Technology Co. President Donald Trump's inflammatory comments about migration from what Duke Energy Corporation he described as "shithole" countries drew widespread condemnation Friday Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. while an underlying bipartisan legislative replacement for the Deferred Action Econ One Research Inc. for Childhood Arrivals program hangs in doubt. Read more » Ernst & Young Fla. House Passes Ban On Sanctuary Cities Exxon Mobil Corporation The Florida House of Representatives on Friday passed a controversial Facebook measure that would ban so-called sanctuary cities in the state, but the bill Florida Justice Association faces steep odds in the Senate. Read more » Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. Gov't Denied Quick Win In Soldiers' Citizenship Suit Google Inc. A D.C. district judge on Thursday rejected the federal government's bid for a Hearst Corp. quick win in a class action in which soldiers allege the military improperly Hubbell Inc. changed the requirements for expedited naturalization applications. Read Hulu LLC more » Instagram Inc. NATIVE AMERICAN International Brotherhood of Teamsters Senate Sends Bill To Recognize Va. Tribes To Trump's Desk Internet Brands, Inc. A half dozen Native American tribes in Virginia could soon be recognized by JLL Partners the federal government after the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a Johnson & Johnson measure to have the United States formally acknowledge them, sending the Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. bill to President Donald Trump's desk. Read more )> Kirkland's, Inc. TELECOMMUNICATIONS Lattice Semiconductor Corporation Lexmark International, Inc. Municipal ISPs Offer Better Value, Harvard Study Suggests LifeLock Inc. Municipal broadband networks offer consumers better value than commercial Linkedln Corp. intemet service providers in most cases, a Harvard study recently found, Los Angeles Times although a lack of data on broadband service dynamics obfuscates the picture. Read more » McDonald's Corporation Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer WHITE COLLAR Center Mercedes-Benz Mueller's Team Seeks May Trial Date For Manafort, Gates National Collegiate Athletic Paul Manafort, the indicted former campaign manager to President Donald Association Trump, may face trial as soon as May, according to a filing Friday by the National Conference of State special counsel spearheading an investigation into the Trump campaign that Legislatures also outlined plans for future evidence exchange. Read more » National Right to Work Legal Analysis Defense Foundation Justices Likely To Set New Tax Standard For Remote Vendors Netflix Inc. The U.S. Supreme Court shocked the tax bar Friday by accepting South New York Times Co. Dakota's direct challenge to the court's 1992 ruling that retailers must have a New York University physical presence within a state to be liable for collection and remittance of Newegg Inc. use taxes, signaling the court's willingness to rethink that precedent in the age of internet sales. Read more » Oculus VR LLC Overstock.com Inc. EXPERT ANALYSIS Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Inc. The Public Finance Industry Dodged A Tax Reform Bullet PhRMA The passage of the tax bill brought an end to a nearly two-month Retail Litigation Center Inc. rollercoaster ride that had the public finance industry white-knuckled and a little green in the face. The final bill belied initial assurances that tax reform Sierra Club EFTA00032565 "won't touch tax-exempt bonds," but the end result could have been a lot Skype Technologies SA worse, say Victoria Ozimek and Brian Teaff of Bracewell LLP. Read more » Snap Inc. A Momentous Year For CFIUS: Part 1 SoftBank Group Corp. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States was the subject Spokeo Inc. of more focus, change and consequence in 2017 than it had been in at least a decade. It appears that the significant CFIUS developments last year soon Spotify Technology SA may be followed by formal legal changes, say attorneys with Wilson Sonsini TAM SA Goodrich & Rosati PC. Read more » Tax Foundation TelexFree LLC NJ's Evolving Health Care Arena: Trends To Watch In 2018 The Renco Group New Jersey is one of the most competitive and heavily regulated states in terms of health care, making it a good barometer for how the industry is Twitter Inc. evolving nationally. As physicians and medical groups deal with issues like U.S. Chamber of Commerce flat reimbursement from insurance providers and the rapidly rising costs of United Steelworkers operating a medical practice, the ways in which doctors deliver health care UnitedLex Corp. will continue to change in 2018, says John Fanburg of Brach Eichler LLC. Read more » Washington Post Co. Wayfair LLC Balancing Vertical Integration In Calif.'s Cannabis Industry YouTube Inc. Given the incentives to organize vertically, California cannabis regulators will need to identify and challenge harmful vertical integration, but allow GOVERNMENT AGENCIES efficiency-improving integration in cannabis markets and revise regulations to Bureau of Land Management reduce inefficiencies, says Georgina Moreno of Econ One Research Inc. Committee on Foreign Investment Read more » in the United States How Tax Reform Will Change FCA Settlements Consumer Financial Protection Little attention has been paid to a provision of the new tax law that requires Bureau federal agencies to specify, at the time of settlement of government claims, Council on Environmental Quality the portion of the settlement that may be deductible as a business expense. Department of Commerce This is sure to impact False Claims Act and other settlements involving the European Commission government going forward, say attorneys with Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Read more » European Union Executive Office of the President 5 Advertising Law Trends To Watch In 2018 Federal Bureau of Investigation Legal and technological disruptions in the advertising space last year Federal Communications outpaced the development of prior years. Although many topics contributed Commission to this industry upheaval, there are five trends that shaped 2017 and will Federal Judicial Center continue to develop in the coming years, say Jason Gordon and Andrew Levad of Reed Smith LLP. Read more » Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration LEGAL INDUSTRY Federal Trade Commission Florida House of Representatives New Group To Probe Workplace Harassment In Federal Courts Florida Office of Insurance The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has launched a working group to Regulation examine the policies in place to protect employees of the federal judiciary Florida State Senate from workplace harassment, the office announced on Friday. Read more » Food and Drug Administration High Court Vet Joins Quinn Emanuel From Kirkland Internal Revenue Service U.S. Supreme Court heavy hitter Chris Landau is moving to Quinn Emanuel National Labor Relations Board Urquhart & Sullivan LLP after 25 years at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, joining a National Security Agency growing appellate group formed by his former Harvard law professor Occupational Safety and Health Kathleen Sullivan. Read more » Review Commission Final Dewey Cooperator Gets No Jail Time Office of Foreign Assets Control The final cooperator in the Manhattan district attorneys criminal case against Office of the U.S. Trade former executives at the once prominent law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Representative was sentenced to unconditional release on Friday, presumably ending the Pennsylvania Supreme Court saga that absorbed the legal industry. Read more » Securities and Exchange Commission Up Next At High Court: Betraying A Client, Appellate Rules Smithsonian Institution EFTA00032566 A lawyer's courtroom betrayal of his client in a Louisiana murder trial is likely South Dakota Department of the juiciest item on the Supreme Court's oral argument calendar this week, Revenue but other cases involving the right of appeal in consolidated cases and a U.S. Army controversial question under the Fair Labor Standards Act could have major U.S. Attorneys Office implications for the appellate and employment bars. Here's what to expect. Read more » U.S. Department of Defense Legal Tech Download: Acquisition Fever U.S. Department of Health and The world of legal technology is quickly evolving, with new products coming Human Services to market in rapid succession. Here, Law360 takes a look at seven major U.S. Department of Homeland recent developments. Read more » Security U.S. Department of Justice GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week U.S. Department of Transportation The head of a conservative think tank slammed attacks against the Federal Communications Commission's Republican chairman over the agency's vote U.S. Department of the Interior to repeal net neutrality, federal immigration officials inspected almost 100 7- U.S. Department of the Treasury Eleven stores across the country, and lawmakers in various states proposed U.S. Environmental Protection legislation to quell workplace sexual harassment. These are some of the Agency stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. Read U.S. House of Representatives more » U.S. Immigration and Customs Podcast Enforcement Law360's Pro Say: When To Walk Away From A Dangerous U.S. Office of Personnel Client Management On the latest episode of Law360's Pro Say podcast, the team discusses how U.S. Postal Service to know when it is time to ditch a dangerous client like Martin Shkreli, the U.S. Senate latest developments over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals U.S. Supreme Court immigration program, a case striking down partisan gerrymandering, and a bizarre 5-bite diet. Read more Ute Indian Tribe World Trade Organization In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360 For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Read more JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Not sure if your firm subscribes? Ask your librarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. 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