6-Lawyer Pillsbury Team Launches New Public Policy Practice at Crowell
After moving in 2006 from Patton Boggs to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a six-lawyer public policy group has now shifted its operations to Crowell & Mooring.
They are establishing a new public policy and political law practice at the Washington, D.C., law firm, which is also bringing C&M Capitolink, its government relations subsidiary, in-house to work with the six-attorney Democratic group, reports a Legal Times article reprinted by New York Lawyer (reg. req.). An increasing number of Middle East-based clients, as well as clients from the firm’s environmental, health care and tax practices, are interested in lobbying services.
“Capitolink leaned right, so poaching the Democrats from Pillsbury was part of a push towards bipartisanship,” the legal publication writes. Kent Gardiner, who chairs the Crowell firm, “says it didn’t make sense to merge the Pillsbury lawyers in with the consulting subsidiary, which didn’t include any lawyers. Instead, the firm created the new practice area.”
The lawyers on Crowell’s new team are: partners Peter Robertson, Florence Prioleau, and Thomas O’Donnell; senior counsel Elliott Laws and Joseph Trapasso; and associate Kristina Pisanelli.
