Representing both corporate clients and state governments, King & Spalding LLP offers great experience in managing and defending complex state attorneys general investigations and related enforcement actions. With industry expertise spanning tech, environment, financial services, healthcare, and sport, the team has been engaged in multistate litigation relating to issues as diverse as dialysis services, litigation funding, and environmental pollution. Washington DC-based J.C. Boggs, who assists major companies and trade associations with public policy and enforcement matters, co-chairs the practice alongside former White House special counsel Alicia O’Brien, who joined the firm in February 2023, bringing with her two decades of crisis management and investigations experience. In LA, Peter Hsiao heads the West Coast environmental, health and safety practice, and supports on defending investigations into violations of environmental law provisions, while Sacramento’s Greg Scott specializes in the healthcare, retail, and construction sectors. The group’s AG offering has also recently expanded through the additions of financial services, healthcare, and life sciences expert Adam Baker from the New Jersey district attorney’s office in March 2023, and tech, financial services, and consumer protection specialist Olivia Radin from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in January 2023, both based in New York, while DC-based former FBI and DOJ official Amelia Medina advises on the potential impacts of evolving regulatory and law enforcement priorities.
Key clients
- American Kidney Fund
- Dialysis Patient Citizens Inc.
- RD Legal Funding LLC
- Egon Zehnder International RD
- The State of Utah
- The State of New Jersey
Work highlights
- Acted for American Kidney Fund, Dialysis Patient Citizens, and others in successfully opposing the institution of California statute AB 290, thus overturning legislation that would have made dialysis services unaffordable to many in the state.
- Represented RD Legal Funding in defending against litigation brought by the NYAG and the CFPB alleging fraudulent and usurious litigation funding deals related to the 9/11 Zadroga fund and the NFL concussion cases.
- Acted for the State of Utah in the $200m Gold King Mine Blowout litigation in southern Colorado, arising from one of the largest inland pollution events in American history, in which the EPA is one of those being sued for liability.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
J.C. Boggs, Alicia O’Brien