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October 21, 2009 |
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K&L Gates Antitrust;
Mintz Levin;
Thompson Hine
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| Join our next Breakfast & Schmooze, Oct 28, “Is K Street the New Wall Street?" It features Federal Stimulus Tsar Earl Devaney; former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Carlyle co-founder and tech guru Ed Mathias; Trump Organization EVP Eric Trump; former NAM president Jerry Jasinowski; and Lazard defense banker William Farmer. Reagan Building. Sign up NOW. |
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| “It’s a good time to be an antitrust lawyer,” former Coca-Cola Chief Competition Counsel Ken Glazer tells us; he recently landed at K&L Gates after a stint as No. Two at the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. |
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Ken knows Section II of the Sherman Act (an area he expects FTC and DOJ to enforce more) better than the smooth, always refreshing taste of an ice-cold Coke, having chaired the ABA antitrust section’s unilateral conduct committee. Though Ken no longer has 100 FTC lawyers asking him to sign-off on policy, he's confident his experience with regulatory agencies will enable him to contend with new, and increasingly international, enforcement priorities in areas like hi-tech, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.
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In a nod to one of his long-time mentors, McDermott's Lanny Davis, we snapped Ken indulging in some of his own prose. Turns out, deep thinking is one of his hobbies. Ken tells us that before coming to K&L, he took the summer off and religiously practiced yoga. His mantra? “FTC, FTC, FTC...”
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Barack Obama’s Healthcare Plan
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There’s evidence President Obama is following through on claims to crack down on healthcare “waste, fraud, and abuse.” (Though your achy back healing was not his doing. He’s a Nobel Laureate, not a miracle worker.) Mintz Levin partner Hope Foster says her health care enforcement practice has seen an increase in qui tam and fraud suits involving novel theories of liability. She also notes that DoJ has markedly increased the size of its criminal fraud division.
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Of counsel Quin Dodd and Mark Riedy join Hope and managing partner Susan Berson. Quin sees parallels between increased healthcare fraud action and developments in consumer product safety. (He’s a good source, having represented the US Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman during the crafting of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.) While the CPSC adapts to the massive jurisdiction increase the Act gave it, Quin foresees an increase in enforcement actions against companies, particularly since the Act also empowers state AGs to enforce the law. As for Mark, an energy attorney, our recent cold weather must be a treat: he played Division I hockey at Michigan.
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| The Law of the Rails |
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Yesterday, we stopped by Thompson Hine, where transportation lawyer Sandy Brown, who arrived last month from Troutman Sanders, is focusing on issues relating to the shipment of coal by railroad. (She’s showing us a coal-miner’s cap that reminds her of her family’s coal-mining heritage.) Sandy tells us that today’s coal shippers have scant ability to challenge anti-competitive behavior among the major four U.S. railways; she says members of her new practice group have been working to “level the playing field” by repealing the railroad industry’s long-standing antitrust exemptions. She tells us a bill is due out any day now.
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All aboard! Here’s the entire Thompson Hine transpo team: Jeff Moreno, Jennifer Gartlan, Karyn Booth, Sandy, and Nick DiMichael. MIA is associate David Benz, who’s currently driving cross-country towards Alaska. Why he’s not travelling by rail is anyone’s guess.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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October 28 - Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze - "Is K Street the New Wall Street?" Info.
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