Wake Up Call: VOA Gave Firms $4 Million No-Bid Deal, Suit Says

In today’s column, Goodwin poached Hogan Lovells’ entire consumer finance litigation team; Katten hired the CFTC’s former top lawyer; a major Australian law firm and two financial agencies got hit by a cyberattack that breached file-sharing systems provided by a U.S. company; Sheppard Mullin is offering a big bonus for its hardest working staff.

• Leading off, a whistleblower complaint alleges that the former head of Voice of America’s parent agency, Trump appointee Michael Pack, hired Washington law firms McGuireWoods and Caplin & Drysdale to no-bid contracts that have cost taxpayers close to $4 million over a five-month period, the Post ...