State Attorneys General Practice
The role of state attorneys general as an investigative and enforcement powerhouse for consumer protection and antitrust matters presents challenges and opportunities for entities of all sizes and in all sectors. The Dentons State Attorneys General Practice is a full-service, nationwide practice to advise and assist clients when dealing with state attorneys general and their staff. The practice features bipartisan leadership from four former state attorneys general along with former deputy attorneys general, assistant attorneys general and chiefs of staff from some of the most active offices in the nation and top notch litigators experienced in defending lawsuits brought by state attorneys general.
Role of State AGs enforces these laws and often many clients are subjects of investigations, The role of state attorneys general others including laws in areas such the team works to achieve resolution is unique among elected officials as financial services, the environment or settlement short of litigation, as well in the US—serving as their state’s and health care. Sometimes state as defending litigation. chief legal officer, investigative attorneys general act in concert or powerhouse, consumer protection join with federal agencies for multi- arbiter and enforcer, prosecutor, state investigations and litigation. What we do multi-jurisdictional litigator and Whether the attorneys general act We assist clients throughout the policy advocate. Companies doing independently or work with their country in integrating state attorneys business in the US need to navigate state or federal counterparts, it is general strategies and responses into not only federal laws and regulations, critical for corporate entities to be well the client’s governmental affairs and but also state and local laws and represented and advised appropriately legal operations. When appropriate, regulations. Each state has its own when interacting with attorneys we educate attorneys general on consumer protection, antitrust and general or their staff. national and state policy issues of false claims act laws that present importance to our clients. We help Dentons State Attorneys General challenges for entities of all sizes clients develop short and long- Practice team helps clients develop and in all sectors. Each state has its term strategies to avoid becoming and implement strategies to avoid own attorney general, usually elected subjects of state attorney general becoming subjects of state attorneys independently of the governor, who investigations. Should a company general investigations—and when come under investigation, we work to
2 dentons.com achieve resolution short of litigation. Comprehensive national lawsuits. Our team includes former US We have deep subject matter approach Attorneys and Assistant US Attorneys knowledge in areas of law frequently Our State Attorneys General Practice and those who have defended the subject of attorney general inquiry has full service, in-house capability for pharmaceutical companies, financial such as financial services, energy, representing clients through our offices institutions, telecommunications consumer protection, false claims, and networks spanning the country. companies, insurance companies, healthcare, antitrust and data privacy In recognition of the increasingly hospitals and health care organizations, and data breaches. Our representative prominent role state attorneys general auto companies and others in large, experience includes: offices play in affecting federal and complex cases involving federal and state policy and regulatory affairs, we state agencies. • Consumer protection dedicate top level firm resources to this investigations and litigation standalone practice, providing clients FTC, DOJ, CFPB and Attorneys with a comprehensive suite of legal and General joint enforcement • Antitrust investigations and public policy services characterized by The Federal Trade Commission, litigation our depth and breadth of experience. Department of Justice, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and state • Data privacy and data breach Litigation attorneys general will frequently work investigations While the State Attorneys General cooperatively on major investigations in the areas of consumer protection • Amicus briefs Practice is proactive and attempts to resolve investigations before they result and competition law. Our team has • State False Claims Act and in litigation, lawyers on our practice significant experience handling Medicaid fraud litigation team have extensive experience matters before the FTC, DOJ and litigating the types of matters that the CFPB and is well suited to advise • Comprehensive strategic advice often result in attorney general-initiated companies facing these types of joint enforcement actions. Key contacts
Bill McCollum Thurbert Baker Former Attorney General of Florida Former Attorney General of Georgia Partner, Washington, DC Partner, Atlanta and Washington, DC D +1 202 408 9145 D +1 404 527 8480 [email protected] D +1 202 496 7653 [email protected]
Samuel Olens Dan Gibb Former Attorney General of Georgia Former Assistant Attorney General of Kansas Counsel, Atlanta Partner, Washington, DC D +1 404 527 4108 D +1 202 496 7163 [email protected] [email protected]
Jeff Modisett Rachel M. Cannon Former Attorney General of Indiana Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Senior Counsel, Los Angeles and Partner, Chicago San Francisco D+1 312 876 2474 D +1 213 892 2802 [email protected] [email protected]
dentons.com 3 The other members of the State Attorneys General Practice team:
Gaspare (Gap) J. Bono Dennis Lee, former Chief of Staff Christopher (Kit) Smith to the Indiana Attorney General Charles (Trip) E. Dorkey, III Natalie J. Spears Callie L. Pioli Stephen L. Hill, Jr. Darry A. Sragow Shannon Shin
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