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Washington – June 11, 2026: Crowell & Moring is proud to announce that the firm has been recognized with an Outstanding Achievement Award by the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs at the 2026 Wiley A. Branton Luncheon. The award celebrates the firm's work on behalf of tenants of the Franklin Apartments, a building in northeast Washington, D.C., where residents endured years of deplorable housing conditions before the firm helped secure a landmark settlement. 

Cyberattacks have become an omnipresent threat in our society, affecting every industry. On Friday, July 2, the biggest ransomware attack on record hit thousands of victims in at least 17 countries, including at least 200 companies in the United States. Hackers demanded $70 million in cryptocurrency to provide a decryption key. This attack followed on the heels of two high-profile ransomware attacks on U.S. infrastructure: the May Colonial Pipeline attack and the June attack on JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company.