Sidley Austin

Jan

2010

AYFKM? Sidley Austin Lawyer To Represent Wall Street

AYFKM?Barack Obama, Carter G. Phillips, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Michelle Obama, Sidley Austin, Wall Street Banks

When I initially read the title of this article in the NY Times, I thought, "finally, Wall Street is going to stand up to Obama's wealth redistribution games." Which was then followed closely by, "WTF? AYFKM? Carter G. Phillips of Sidley Austin? Barry and Mishy's old law firm? What's the game now, and I bet Davis Polk & Wardwell are not happy, or maybe they just don't want to touch this one." Wall St. Weighs a Challenge to a Proposed Tax Wall Street’s main lobbying arm has hired a top Supreme Court litigator to study a possible legal battle against…

Aug

2009

By Logistics Monster

Houston, We Have A Problem: Let’s Start With Tides

PoliticsAcorn, Drummond Pike, Jacob Hacker, Sidley Austin, Tides Foundation, Wade Rathke

On July 28, 2009, I put up a post titled "The Apollo Alliance" that had just been spoken about on Glenn Beck. In the comments section, this little note was left: Glenn Beck’s recent representation of the Apollo Alliance was filled with distortions and convenient omissions. To set the record straight, Beck failed to note that business leaders across the country support Apollo’s efforts to promote bipartisan policies that will lead to domestic job creation and the revival of our struggling manufacturing sector. Our goal is to put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar…

Bad Behavior has blocked 1246 access attempts in the last 7 days.