Smith was a former U.S. Attorney and is a partner at Washington, DC, powerhouse firm, Patton Boggs.
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Currently a lobbyist with Patton Boggs, one of Washington's most prominent lobbying firms.
After a judge dismissed the case on April 19, Patton Boggs refiled with new allegations that largely mirrored the first.
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Russell DeLeon and the high-profile law firms Patton Boggs and Motley Rice.
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In the meantime, this year the Washington law firm Patton Boggs joined the cause, as well as tobacco-settlement engineers Motley Rice.
Now Patton Boggs, the politically connected Washington firm, has fired back, accusing Gibson Dunn of its own conspiracy to deprive the villagers of counsel.
Most tellingly, the plaintiffs recruited James Tyrrell of Patton Boggs, the politically connected Washington law firm, to try and drive Chevron into settlement talks.
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The plaintiffs won funding from London-based Burford Group last year, and that firm, which invests in corporate litigation, demanded that Patton Boggs join the case.
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Luskin, a lawyer at Patton Boggs LLP, who is representing Mr. Armstrong, said the athlete has 10 days to make a written submission to USADA's antidoping review board.
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In his place are Patton Boggs and Motley Rice, whose lawyers are still drawing millions of dollars a year in fees from the 1997 tobacco settlement with state attorneys general.
"There is definitely a lot of scrambling that is going on in the industry, " says Carol Van Cleef, a lawyer at Patton Boggs LLP in Washington who represents clients in bitcoin ventures.
Patton Boggs, in an amendment to an action filed last year to block the disqualification, says Chevron and its lawyers have stooped to unlawyerly tactics to try and derail the Ecuador lawsuit.
But the decision by the three-judge panel could free the plaintiffs and their lawyers at the high-profile Washington firm Patton Boggs to begin trying to enforce any final judgment arising from the Ecuador case.
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C. has tossed a lawsuit by the prominent law firm Patton Boggs that accuses lawyers for Chevron of somehow conspiring to keep plaintiffs in a massive pollution case from paying their bills.
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Kennedy Jr. dismissed the second action today, saying Patton Boggs cited incorrect laws and failed to provide any explanation of how Gibson Dunn had conspired to get the Ecuadoreans to stop paying their bills.
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Throughout, Kaplan cites the Invictus report, written by the influential Washington law firm Patton Boggs, which Chevron obtained under court order and details a worldwide plan to try and enforce the judgment and win a favorable settlement.
Patton Boggs joined the lawsuit by Ecuadorean villagers suing Chevron over toxic drilling waste in the Amazonian jungle last year, but has been stymied in efforts to drag the global oil giant to the bargaining table to settle.
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