State Attorneys General Investigations & Enforcement

As their states’ chief law enforcement officers, AGs enforce state laws in wide-ranging areas including consumer protection, data privacy, antitrust, and environmental law, and they influence important state policies and laws affecting the high-technology, energy, and healthcare sectors. As their states’ chief legal advisors, AGs also challenge federal laws, regulations, and policies in order to defend their states’ right to govern themselves against federal overreach. In addition, they frequently collaborate with their federal counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Orrick’s team brings distinctively rich insight into the dynamics within state AG offices and at the FTC: the core of our team comprises former Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Brian Moran and former Wisconsin Chief Deputy Attorney General Andrew Cook, and Anisha Dasgupta, former General Counsel of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and former New York Deputy Solicitor General.

Given that many of an AG office’s legal and policy decisions are first initiated, prioritized, and executed at the staff level, deep experience at all levels of AG office operations should matter greatly to any company seeking to engage a law firm for representation before AG offices. Our deep understanding of how an AG office works, our personal credibility with those offices, and our substantive legal and policy experience affords our clients advantages that other firms simply cannot match. Similarly, our team includes deep experience with the FTC’s bi-partisan commission and their staff.

Wide-Ranging Consumer Protection Experience

Our AG office and FTC experience with enforcing consumer protection laws ranges from cybersecurity to tort liability, unfair competition to Medicaid fraudulent billing matters. Our legal and policy experience also includes working with state legislators and state agencies to draft, implement or amend state law; approving indictments and negotiating settlements; and overseeing state appellate strategy, including arguing on behalf of states in significant cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.