Talking Law with Hogan Lovells

False Claims Act - Ep. 5: Financial Services

In today’s episode, we'll visit with Hogan Lovells partner Stephanie Yonekura, senior associate Jennifer Brechbill and senior associate David Bastian (moderator), from our Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Boston offices, as they discuss Financial Services.

False Claims Act - Ep. 4: Government Motions to Dismiss

In today's episode, we'll visit with Hogan Lovells partner Mike Theis, senior associate Stacy Hadeka and senior associate David Bastian (moderator), from our Denver, Washington, D.C. and Boston offices, as they discuss Government motions to dismiss.

The A Perspective Podcast: Andrew Skipper talks to Geoffrey White

The A Perspective podcast is back for a fourth season. Andrew Skipper continues to discuss key topics with some of Africa's most influential leaders, both on and off the continent. In our first episode for the year, Andrew talks to Agility’s CEO for Africa, Geoffrey White. Geoffrey has been at the helm since 2014 and is focused on developing integrated logistics infrastructure solutions across the continent.

Join them as they discuss the strategy and reasoning behind Agility’s investments into Africa, how companies in Africa can navigate infrastructure challenges through simple logistical solutions and the positive impact this is having on future growth and development. Geoffrey goes on to share his thoughts on how the AfCFTA could make a substantial difference in terms of intra-African trade and value addition and also shares his views on the main barriers to success within his business and the potential opportunities and challenges brought about by Covid-19 in the short and long term. To find out more about the future of logistics in Africa, visit Agility’s Emerging Markets page here.  

False Claims Act - Ep. 3: Medical Necessity & Supreme Court Developments

In today’s episode, we’ll visit with Hogan Lovells partner Maria Durant, counsel Julia McLetchie and senior associate David Bastian (moderator), from our Boston office, as they discuss Medical Necessity and Supreme Court Developments.

False Claims Act - Ep. 2: Materiality & Escobar

In today’s episode, we’ll visit with Hogan Lovells counsel Matthew Sullivan, associate Claudia Pare and senior associate David Bastian (moderator), from our New York, Washington D.C. and Boston offices, as they discuss Materiality & Escobar.

Pro Bono Reflections – Ep. 10: Discrimination

On April 1, 1993, 21 Secret Service agents were responsible for protecting the president during his visit to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. On their breakfast break, they visited a Denny's restaurant. And while every single officer was willing to put their lives on the line for their country and their commander-in-chief, only the white officers were served that day.
 
In Episode 10: Discrimination, Pro Bono Senior Counsel Jonathan Abram speaks with Walter Smith, Executive Director of DC Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, about the disturbing pattern of racial bias at this major American restaurant chain.
 
Walter also describes our work in defending the LGBTQ+ community in 1992 following an anti-gay voter referendum in Colorado.

False Claims Act - Ep. 1: CARES Act

In today's episode, we'll visit with Hogan Lovells senior associate Marta Thompson, associate Ray Li and senior associate David Bastian (moderator), from our Washington, D.C. and Boston offices, as they discuss the CARES act.

Pro Bono Reflections – Ep. 9: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Secret Service agents are willing to take a bullet to protect the lives of government officials and their families. But despite their dedicated service, Black agents have faced a long history of discrimination within the agency, getting passed over again and again in the promotion process while watching their less qualified white colleagues advance.

In Episode 9: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied, Des Hogan, Global Head of Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment, discusses with Erica Knievel Songer, Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel - Office of the White House Counsel, our lengthy legal battle to force change within the Secret Service. In 2017, the highly publicized case ended in a $24 million settlement.

Pro Bono Reflections – Ep.8: Four Walls and a Door

Second graders should be spending their time practicing subtraction and building baking soda volcanos. But our 8-year-old client – we’ll call him James – instead learned how to bathe in a communal sink and take two bus lines to get from a makeshift homeless shelter to school.
 
In Episode 8: Four Walls and a Door, Partner Allison Holt Ryan and Senior Associate Lance Murashige describe the conditions where James, his grandmother, and other homeless families stayed during the “polar vortex” that swept through D.C. in 2014. On top of the already traumatic impact of homelessness on the child, James was sleeping on a gymnasium floor next to strangers, using a shared bathroom with men he didn’t know, with no alternative but a laundromat or a bench in Union Station. With our help, James and other homeless children were provided with the safety and stability of private rooms on freezing nights.
 
Also in this episode, Senior Counsel Stan Brown and Chava Brandriss, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, discuss the 13-year legal battle to eliminate an exclusionary zoning ordinance on Long Island that intentionally and unlawfully discriminated against people of color.

Pro Bono Reflections – Ep. 7: Desegregation

Despite a host of landmark court rulings and legislation aimed at dismantling institutional racism, "de facto" segregation persists across many neighborhoods, schools, and communities.

In Episode 7: Desegregation, we take a look at two major civil rights wins from the late 20th century. Pro Bono Senior Counsel Joe Hassett and Jack Keeney, General Counsel at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, describe their success on behalf of the residents of Woodland Village. The federal housing community was built during World War II for Black Navy workers and their families on the banks of the Potomac River in blue-collar southern Maryland. Woodland Village remained segregated from the surrounding, all-white town of Indian Head and, until we intervened, for decades was denied access to water, sewer, and cable.

The pair discuss a second discrimination case during that time – this one much closer to the nation's capital. The firm represented the NAACP in seeking a remedy for the failure of Prince George’s County schools to truly desegregate, as it had been ordered to do in 1972.