Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
I don’t think that there’s a single industry that’s safe anymore, safe meaning like off-limits from investigations.
— Michael Bell, a partner at Hogan Lovells, in comments given to the National Law Journal, on why Biglaw congressional investigations practices are getting ready for more work in 2025, when the White House and Congress will be controlled by Republicans. “From a pure bandwidth perspective, there could be some impact, certainly at the beginning of the new administration, where there will be a huge focus on confirming appointees to the various positions within the Trump administration,” Bell continued. “And that will take up a significant portion of the bandwidth in the Senate, and so it may delay, or slow, to some extent, the initiation of some investigations, but I do think over time, we’re going to see a fairly significant increase in that activity in the Senate.”
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