Bloomberg Law
Nov. 9, 2018, 9:30 AM UTC

House Probes Like ‘Nine-Alarm Fire,’ Law Firms Prep for Democrats

Elizabeth Olson
Elizabeth Olson
Special Correspondent

Major law firms are using all the tools in their considerable arsenals to ready clients for any scrutiny from possible new hearings and investigations initiated by Democrats when they take over U.S. House control beginning in January.

Videos, podcasts, webinars, all-day seminars and old-fashioned consultations are being employed to bring clients, especially high-profile congressional targets like pharmaceutical companies, up to speed on what may be to come.

“A congressional investigation is like a nine-alarm fire, and really essentially brings the company to a stop until the crisis has been resolved,” Robert Kelner, a partner at Covington & Burling, said in ...

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