Foxwoods Casino Owner Hires New Top Lawyer Amid Covid-19 Crisis

April 2, 2020, 9:31 AM UTC

Foxwoods Resort Casino has hired a new general counsel even as the coronavirus has quieted its slot machines and resulted in the furlough of more than 5,000 employees.

Foxwoods, the second-largest casino in the U.S. by square footage and one of the largest of its kind in the world, installed former Steptoe & Johnson partner Jody Cummings as its fourth general counsel in four years.

Cummings became the new top lawyer last month in the Office of Legal Counsel for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, which owns and operates Foxwoods. Cummings spent more than three years as a ...

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