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Crowell & Moring Adds Tough Litigator From DC AG s Office
Law360 (April 14, 2021, 2:29 PM EDT) Crowell & Moring LLP has brought on a deputy attorney general for the District of Columbia as a partner for its Washington, D.C., office to bolster its employment and labor, litigation, and state attorneys general practices, the firm announced Wednesday.
Toni Michelle Jackson, who has led the public interest division of D.C. s Office of the Attorney General since 2018, will focus on complex civil disputes involving civil rights, class actions, internal investigations, employment and commercial litigation, the firm said in a statement.
Jackson brings to the table plenty of public sector experience. As a deputy attorney general, she directed four specialized.
Thursday, Feb. 25
Healing through unity and community: The DC Office of Human Rights (OHR) and Commission on Human Rights, in collaboration with the DC Office of the Attorney General’s High School Advisory Council (HSAC), is hosting a paneled discussion to understand and process the current cultural and political landscape. This discussion will be from 5:30 to 7 pm Thursday. Click here to register for this free event.
A legacy of service in Maryland government: As part of Black History Month, the Greater Baltimore Committee is hosting a paneled discussion to talk about “the role African Americans have played in Maryland and Baltimore government and ways to move forward in addressing racial inequities.” The conversation begins at 8:30 pm Thursday. Prices range from $25-50. Register here.
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine. Photo by Darrow Montgomery.
The three-person community engagement team in the D.C. Office of the Attorney General was eliminated earlier this month, several people familiar with the situation tell LL. Attorney General
Karl Racine hasn’t decided whether he’ll hire replacements, but he says the move will not result in less interaction with the community.
“From time to time during my six years as attorney, I have reviewed aspects of our office and made various personnel decisions,” Racine says. “Of course the office will continue to have a robust community engagement effort. Indeed, dozens and dozens of OAG lawyers and non-lawyers engage with the public on a daily basis.”
John Kerry / US special presidential envoy for climate
DC connection: The former presidential candidate was a military brat who spent part of his childhood in the District, attending Jackson Elementary and St. Albans.
Random fact: His family lived across the street from newspaper columnist Joe Alsop. Kerry was also a Cub Scout with Brit Hume.
Photograph courtesy of U.S. Senate
Susan Rice / Head of the Domestic Policy Council
DC connection: Rice was born and raised in Washington. She graduated from Beauvoir and National Cathedral School.
Random fact: As a child of DC insiders, Rice grew up surrounded by prominent Washing-ton figures: Civil-rights activist Peggy Cooper Cafritz was her godmother, and Madeleine Albright is a family friend.
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In July of 2020,
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