Former Gov. Matt Blunt is joining The Ashcroft Group, the lobbying firm founded by John Ashcroft, the first U.S. attorney general in the George W. Bush administration. The firm also announced the addition of Michael Sullivan, former acting director of ...

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Eastern District U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway confirmed Friday that she is joining a firm headed by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Hanaway is slated to leave the U.S. Attorney position Monday for a law firm to be known here as Ashcroft Hanaway. Missouri Lawyers Weekly reported in February that Hanaway planned to work with Ashcroft when she left office, but Hanaway declined to comment at that time, saying she first had to formally give her resignation to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Attorney General Eric Holder directed executive-branch agencies not to withhold public records simply because they may do so legally, reversing a Bush administration policy. In a memo to government agencies Thursday, Holder encouraged agencies to “make discretionary disclosures of information,” ...

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Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey will join New York law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, the firm said Tuesday in a statement. Mukasey, a former federal judge in New York, will join the firm as a partner in the litigation ...

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U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway is planning to join the lobbying and consulting group headed by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

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While many of the state’s court staff might have hoped to have the day off for Gov.-elect Jay Nixon’s swearing-in, only those lucky enough to be working in Jefferson City are not in their offices today. It has been fairly ...

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