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PODCAST: Announcing Crowell & Moring’s Regulatory Forecast 2019

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 02.28.19

On February 27, Crowell & Moring published its fifth annual Regulatory Forecast, exploring a diverse range of regulatory developments coming out of Washington and other leading regulatory centers of power.

The publication’s editors, Richard Lehfeldt and Dan Wolff, both partners in the firm’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, sat down to discuss the forecast. In this 21 minute podcast, Richard and Dan discuss what you will find in our Regulatory Forecast 2019.

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