Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld announced today leaders of Patton Bogg’s healthcare practice have joined the firm, making its group "one of the nation's very largest" health law and policy practices in the country.
Tommy Bogg’s PB finally ironed out a merger with Squire Sanders last week. It will be known as Squire Patton Boggs.
John Jonas, founder of PB’s health group, is among the new faces at Akin Gump.
Anurag Varma, Martha Kendrick, Karen Smith Thiel, Todd Tutun and Richard Thompson, who once was Bristol-Myers Squibb’s senior VP-policy and government affairs, join Jonas.
Lu Zawistowich, who is leaving PB to form CapView Assocs., has decided to associate with AK.
CapView will focus on strategic advice, deliver system reform and coverage issues under Medicare, Medicaid, and the healthcare exchanges.
Kim Koopersmith, Akin Gump chairman, called the personnel additions “a game changer for our clients and our firm.”
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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