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Washington – June 1, 2023: Crowell & Moring earned 82 rankings for 68 lawyers across 48 categories, as well as 37 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2023 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

Washington – June 1, 2022: Chambers and Partners has ranked 70 Crowell & Moring lawyers in 84 rankings across 40 categories in the Chambers USA 2022 guide. In addition, 37 practice areas were also ranked in the guide. The regional and national rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers.

Washington – May 20, 2021: Chambers and Partners has ranked 63 Crowell & Moring lawyers in 75 rankings across 41 categories in the Chambers USA 2021 guide, an increase of 10 lawyers, 13 rankings and 8 categories over last year’s results. In addition, 30 practice areas were also ranked in the guide, up from 21 practices last year. The regional and national rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers.

On November 24, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) motion to stay the release of the names, addresses, and precise loan amounts for borrowers that had obtained loans approved pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) program, and the Court ordered SBA to release this information by December 1, 2020. This gives SBA just one week to notice its appeal and seek an administrative stay in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Unless SBA obtains a stay from the D.C. Circuit, the District Court’s ruling could result in the release of the loan information, which was requested by various media organizations through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), as soon as December 1, 2020.

On July 16, 2020, the Trump administration’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published a final rule revising the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) – the first substantial rewrite to the regulations guiding how the Executive Branch is to consider the environmental impacts of federal actions since the rules were first issued more than four decades ago. 

As part of our continuing commitment to help our clients address the effects of COVID-19, we are providing the initial, anonymized, and aggregated results from our benchmarking questionnaire. We continue to gather information and update the responses, but given the rapidly changing environment, we wanted you to have this information sooner than later.

Crowell & Moring’s Tax Group invites you to join us for the 37th Annual Managing Tax Audits and Appeals. The seminar will provide an overview of everything you need to know about recent developments and hot topics in tax, from planning through litigation, including perspectives from the IRS.

The EEI Legal Conference is a bi-annual meeting for the General Counsels of shareholder-owned electricity companies to receive updates on new laws and trends in the electric power sector. Partner David Chung will speak on the panel titled “Siting and Permitting: How Do We Get Transmission Built Faster?” This panel will identify to siting and permitting challenges, the range of proposed solutions, and EEI member preferences. It also will review legislation proposed to date, related Federal Energy Regulatory Activity, and regulatory options.

Join Crowell & Moring for a two-part webinar series that will explore the issues impacting investment, development, and operation of water infrastructure in 2021 and beyond. 

The fourth webinar in our Election 2020 series will focus on the presidential candidates’ platforms on environmental law and policy and how American businesses, workers and consumers will have to prepare for two very different worlds depending upon the election outcome. In this roundtable webinar, our lawyers will discuss what’s at stake, the opportunities that exist to influence policy making, and how to leverage administration and congressional priorities under various election scenarios for the coming years, including:

As regulated industries continue to confront mounting disruptions and, in some cases, temporary shutdown as a consequence of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, they face the added challenge of managing a range of unrelenting environmental compliance obligations at both the federal and state levels.