Wake Up Call: Armenia Taps Arnold & Porter for $3.25 Million

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• Armenia hired Arnold & Porter for $3.25 million in its legal battle against detained tycoon Samvel Karapetyan over the Electric Networks of Armenia. Karapetyan is in detention on charges of making calls to overthrow the government. His Tashir Group manages the ENA, which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan vowed to ‘swiftly’ nationalize following Karapetyan’s arrest. (OC Media)
• A Washington, DC appellate court declined to suspend the law license of a former lead federal prosecutor in the unsolved 2001 Chandra Levy murder case, instead placing the lawyer on probationary status. The court found Amanda Haines failed to timely disclose evidence to defense lawyers for a man accused of killing Levy. The disclosure failure helped lead to charges being withdrawn in the case a decade ago. (Reuters)
• A Columbus, Ohio attorney who admitted to telling his girlfriend about an informant in an ongoing federal drug investigation—and then lying to the FBI—was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine. Dennis McNamara told his romantic partner that he was representing a witness in a federal investigation and gave her details about the level of cooperation his client was giving, court records say. (The Columbus Dispatch)