Marcus Woo Rejoins Perkins Coie as Partner

And other announcements of recent hirings and promotions of New York attorneys.

By Patricia Kane | April 15, 2021 at 08:00 AM

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• Marcus Woo has rejoined Perkins Coie in New York as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice. He will eventually be assigned to the firm’s Taipei office. He was most recently vice president & general counsel of HTC Corporation, a global consumer electronics company.

• Lauren Schorr Potter has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler as a partner in the litigation department. Prior to joining, she served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she was most recently co-chief of the Violent and Organized Crime Unit.

https://archive.is/2021.04.16-030601/https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2021/04/15/marcus-woo-rejoins-perkins-coie-as-partner/?slreturn=20210315230621

>>13436466

These are the top 5 holdings of Perkins Coie Trust Co

iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF (IVW) - 268,276 shares, 5.98% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 6.88%

Microsoft Corp (MSFT) - 68,840 shares, 5.56% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.39%

Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO) - 73,402 shares, 5.56% of the total portfolio. Shares added by 8.63%

Apple Inc (AAPL) - 96,701 shares, 4.05% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 3.3%

Graco Inc (GGG) - 103,761 shares, 2.54% of the total portfolio.

https://archive.is/2021.04.16-031108/https://www.gurufocus.com/news/1397523/perkins-coie-trust-co-buys-alphabet-inc-devon-energy-corp-sun-life-financial-inc-sells-truist-financial-corp-waste-management-inc-valero-energy-corp

Vanguard, BlackRock singled out for $170bn coal exposure

The research by more than 25 lobby groups and climate activists comes as global asset managers have pledged to tackle climate change

By David Ricketts

Thursday February 25, 2021 5:00 am

Vanguard and BlackRock, the world’s two largest asset managers, have been singled out for having the highest exposure to the global coal industry, holding $170bn between them in some of the most notorious polluters.

Research conducted by more than 25 lobby groups and climate activists including Urgewald, Reclaim Finance and Rainforest Action Network, analysed financial flows to 934 companies across the coal sector, such as Glencore and RWE.

Vanguard was found to have almost $86bn invested across companies included in the research, putting it ahead of BlackRock with just over $84bn. The two US-headquartered money managers account for 17% of institutional investment in the global coal industry between them, according to the analysis.

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/vanguard-blackrock-singled-out-for-170bn-coal-exposure-20210225

>>13436518

Vanguard and Blackrock exposed to US child detention camps

By Jessica Tasman-Jones, 21 Jun 2018

Blackrock has blamed index tracking products for its large stake in a contractor involved in child detention centres in the US, while Vanguard, along with several active investors, has been silent on its exposure to the political controversy.

https://international-adviser.com/vanguard-and-blackrock-exposed-to-us-child-detention-camps/

>>13436466

Marc Elias (JD Duke Law School 1993) is the general counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, and a partner at Perkins Coie, where he is chair of the political law practice. He acted as general counsel to John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004, and in 2008 served as lead counsel for Senator Al Franken in the 2008 Minnesota Senate election recount and contest. Elias successfully argued the case which affirmed Franken had received the highest number of votes in the election. It was the largest recount and contest in American history.

Elias' areas of focus include white collar & investigations, appellate, and political parties, campaigns and committees, and he is nationally recognized expert in the Federal Election Campaign Act, Lobbying Disclosure Act, Ethics in Government Act and Foreign Agents Registration Act.

https://archive.is/2020.11.14-211133/https://www.chambers-associate.com/the-big-interview/marc-elias-general-counsel-for-hillary-clinton

>>13436543

>contractor involved in child detention centres

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Texas family detention centers expected to transform into rapid-processing hubs

The Ellis-Island-style hubs that will screen migrant parents and children with a goal of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours.

South Texas Family Residential Center, an ICE detention center in Dilley.

The South Texas Family Residential Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Dilley. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune

https://archive.is/D9rPY

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Wall Street’s Ties to the Private Immigrant-Detention Network

A grassroots movement to divest from private prison companies running immigrant-detention facilities is gaining steam.

By Michelle ChenTwitterJULY 24, 2018

South Texas Family Residential Center

This file photo shows a sign at the entrance to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, June 30, 2015. (AP Photo / Eric Gay)

There’s a new tactic in the battle against ICE’s detention network: Defund the private prison companies that operate these facilities.

The movement for divestment from the detention-industrial complex will not in itself alter the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive anti-immigrant policies. But a campaign to target two massive corporate prison contractors, CoreCivic and GeoGroup, through their chief creditors, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan, demonstrates the crucial link between the banking system and government investment in immigrant jails.

“These financiers…are essential to the business model of what is effectively a morally bankrupt industry,” says Daniel Altschuler, Director of Civic Engagement and Research for Make the Road New York. The group is part of a coalition of more than 70 organizations, including the ACLU and National Domestic Workers Alliance, that demands that Wells Fargo and JP Morgan stop financing the massive network of privately run ICE facilities.

https://archive.is/6typq

>>13436702

>“The thing that scares them, that gives them night sweats, is the fear that at some point, we might pull the plug on their ability to gain so much access to our cutting edge technology.”

>To counter the Chinese regime’s aggressions, the United States should do more to cut off the flow of American capital into Beijing’s military-industrial complex.

>A recent analysis by the Commerce Department based on publicly available data shows that U.S. public and private equity investments in Chinese- and Hong Kong-domiciled companies from 1992 through the end of 2020 totaled $2.3 trillion in market value.

>“Somehow, Wall Street missed the memo that Beijing is waging an existential fight whose objective is ‘the eventual demise of capitalism and the ultimate victory of socialism,’ to quote Chairman Xi,” Pottinger said.

>Then-President Donald Trump in late 2020 issued an executive order banning U.S. investments into a Pentagon list of Chinese companies owned or controlled by the regime’s military. Pottinger recommended the order be codified into law by Congress and for the list to be expanded to include Chinese companies that are on the Commerce Department’s “entity list.” Dozens of Chinese entities have been added to this trade blacklist over national security or human rights concerns.

fucking based!

>>13436729

>Maricopa county deploy police to protect the auditors from rioters

>>13436729

>Maintaining the physical security of the audit in Maricopa county is of paramount importance.

>>13436731

This guy does phenomenal analyses.

>>13436746

Sobering reminder.

>>13436687

>Marcus Woo Rejoins Perkins Coie as Partner And other announcements of New York attorneys

Just an interesting coincidence with Marcus Woo.

https://archive.is/4Un7s

>>13436792

>Perkins Coie

It'd be great to see a whole list of connections coming from this law firm. Might get a sense of what general counsel for HRC is associated with.

From his interview:

"What advice would you give to students trying to enter the legal profession today?

There is no magical advice…"

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>>13436812

I'm gonna coom so hard later..

Just excuse me for now though while I help restore humanity to its former glory.

>>13436814

Thank you

>>13436814

Need to dig on Jack Sellers the Maricopa County Board of Supervisor Chair and his associations. Seems that before his nomination to chair he was involved with the Chinese.. could just be a sister-cities thing.

Found this:

>pic related

https://archive.is/2021.04.16-043542/https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AZMARIC/bulletins/23616f5

Here he is saying that what the Senate wants is illegal.

https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/sellers-what-senate-wants-is-illegal,210420

>>13436963

Florida on track to pass 'anti-riot' law requiring state approval for decreases to city police budgets

Florida on track to pass 'anti-riot' law requiring state approval for decreases to city police budgets

BY LEXI LONAS16

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Florida is on track to implement an “anti-riot” law that would include requiring state approval for decreases to city police budgets.

The bill passed mostly along partisan lines in the state’s Senate on Thursday in a 23-17 vote and has already passed the state’s House in a 76-39 vote, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

The bill says that a city cannot cut its police budget without approval from the state. It also raises the charge for protesters who destroy historical structures, including flags and memorials, to a felony.

The bill also grant civil legal immunity to people who drive through roads that protesters block off if they are in danger and prohibits protesters who get arrested during a riot from posting bail until after their first court date.

The provision to delay bail is to ensure that a protester does not rejoin the riot, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said when he revealed the legislation in September.

The charge for battery on a police officer during a riot was also upped to a mandatory six months in jail, the state outlet reported.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/548589-florida-on-track-to-pass-anti-riot-law-requiring-state-approval-for

>>13436977

Indeed

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/548533-capitol-police-watchdog-paints-damning-picture-of-jan-6-failures

April 15, 2021 - 04:34 PM EDT

Capitol Police watchdog paints damning picture of Jan. 6 failures

BY CRISTINA MARCOS

(excerpt)

The reports found that Capitol Police failed to ensure that an FBI bulletin warning of the threat of violence reached members of leadership before Jan. 6. According to the report, a Capitol Police task force officer assigned to the FBI Guardian Squad Task Force emailed the FBI memo to an internal Capitol Police email distribution list “late in the evening” on Jan. 5, but neither then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund or now-acting Chief Yogananda Pittman saw it in time.

Bolton said Capitol Police should upgrade its intelligence division to a full-scale bureau and ensure analysts are properly trained to manage intelligence about threats to the Capitol and members of Congress.

“We need an intelligence bureau. Right now it's considered an intelligence division. It needs to be a full-service, comprehensive bureau,” Bolton said Thursday.

His report further recommends requiring all Capitol Police employees to obtain security clearances and receive classified briefings on emerging threats and tactics.

>>13437027

An interesting request from Capitol Police..

Why distance themselves from the FBI?

>The reports found that Capitol Police failed to ensure that an FBI bulletin warning of the threat of violence reached members of leadership before Jan. 6.