French|West|Vaughan is handling the launch of Edwards Kirby, the firm of former North Carolina senator and Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards.
The New York Times and CNN are among major national outlets to feature the return of trail lawyer Edwards to the legal business.
Edwards in 2012 beat a federal corruption rap when a Greensboro judge declared a mistrial on five charges and acquitted him on another.
The case stemmed from charges of misusing $1M in campaign donations to conceal a pregnant mistress and detailed Edwards’ most intimate sexual secrets and public lies regarding the affair, according to today’s NYT.
The trial also highlights his efforts to conceal the liaison from then-wife Elizabeth, who died from breast cancer in 2010.
EK is to focus on public interest cases involving social and economic justice.
It reunites Edwards with his former partner David Kirby. Edwards’ daughter, Cate, and her partner, Sharon Eubanks, are the other members of the firm, which has offices in Washington and Raleigh.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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