State AG Pulse

In this bonus episode in Season 5, Chris Allen and Chuck Slemp consider the power of incumbency and other determining factors in next year’s bumper state AG election cycle.

In the final episode of Season 5, Keturah Taylor talks with Cozen O’Connor colleagues Danielle Sapega and Rick Van Buren about the complex regulatory environment for GLP-1 drugs—including increasing state AG scrutiny—and they outline a road map to help legitimate market participants avoid pitfalls.

In Episode 7 of Season 5 former VA Chief Deputy AG Chuck Slemp runs down the Democratic candidates in the upcoming VA Primary with Grace Garver and gives his prediction for who will win the race in November.

In Episode 6 of Season 5 Chris Allen and Emily Yu examine New York’s proposed FAIR Business Practices Act and what it tells us about how AGs’ consumer protection authority is evolving to address the challenges on the horizon.

In Episode 5 of Season 5 Chris Allen and Hannah Land analyze Texas AG Ken Paxton’s recent $1.4B settlement with Google over alleged use of embedded tracking software and what it tells us about AGs’ privacy and data security concerns.

In Episode 4 of Season 5 Jerry Kilgore sits down with Chuck Slemp, who recently joined Cozen O’Connor’s State AG Group, for a peek at the role and responsibilities of a Chief Deputy AG and to find out how his “insider knowledge” informs how he guides clients.

Episode 3 of Season 5 explores how companies that make products that impact consumers’ and especially kids’ health – from e-cigarettes at one end of the well-being spectrum to breakfast cereals at the other – attract close scrutiny from state AGs.

In Episode 2 of Season 5, as the new administration pursues actions that will fundamentally reshape US government, former Arkansas AG, now Cozen O’Connor State AG Group Co-Chair, Dustin McDaniel and team members Chris Allen and Grace Garver discuss how #stateAGs will step up and the tools they have to fill the #regulatory void.

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In Episode 8 of State AG Pulse, Chris Allen, Ketan Bhirud, and Emily Yu dive into the remaining primaries in this year’s state AG election cycle and the increasingly prominent role played by AGs in influencing federal policy.

In Episode 7 of State AG Pulse, Stephen Cobb and Keturah Taylor dive into the open seat state AG races in Oregon and Washington and other issues shaping the political landscape in the Pacific Northwest.

In this episode of State AG Pulse, Meghan Stoppel, Madison Smith and Keturah Taylor discuss comprehensive state privacy laws and how the uptick in recently enacted state legislation is impacting the federal privacy conversation in Congress.

In politics, argues Howard Schweitzer, knowing where a person comes from is fundamental to a successful relationship. Chris Allen and Jerry Kilgore agree, and in episode 5 of State AG Pulse, season 4, they consider AGs’ career trajectories and how for businesses, getting to know an AG can pay dividends for years to come. They also talk about the increasingly divisive nature of political dialogue a...

Republicans and Democrats agree on the importance of protecting children and teens against online predators. In this episode of State AG Pulse, Jerry Kilgore expands on his recent op-ed in Washington Examiner in which he argued that encouraging parental oversight, together with federal mandates for age standards, would be more effective in protecting children’s safety online than a patchwork of st...

In our third State AG Pulse episode in season 4, we spotlight the pivotal Pennsylvania race with the benefit of insights from Cozen Public Strategies’ Jim Davis in Harrisburg and Joe Hill in Philadelphia. Meghan Stoppel and Siran Faulders engage with Jim and Joe on the PA races from the top of the ticket down. From Rust Belt state Pennsylvania, they traverse the other swing states of the Sun Belt...

In Episode 2 of State AG Pulse, Stephen Cobb talks with Swain Wood, former North Carolina Chief Deputy AG, and WRAL correspondent, Will Doran, on the North Carolina race and the extent to which it will be dominated by the office of the attorney general, both outgoing and incoming.

In this first episode of our new season, the State AG Group’s Jerry Kilgore and Stephen Cobb compare notes with Cozen Public Strategies CEO Howard Schweitzer and the Hon. Rodney Davis on the issues and politics of the upcoming election. From presidential to congressional and gubernatorial to state attorneys general races, they consider the impact of aging presidential contenders, the economy, immi...

Increasingly, influencers are being used by social media-savvy advertisers to encourage consumers to buy their products. And it works: these influencers have an outsized impact on what we buy. In this week’s podcast Meghan Stoppel and Hannah Cornett discuss warnings from the FTC to advertisers about how and when they should disclose influencer endorsements, while considering the likelihood that wh...

State AGs’ authority is by no means limited to their more traditional jurisdictions - consumer protection, privacy, and antitrust - as several recent actions by state AGs in the labor and employment arena clearly demonstrate. In the penultimate episode of season 3, Chris Allen and Keturah Taylor consider recent efforts by Democratic AGs to help protect workers’ access to overtime pay and an enforc...

The 2023 AG elections showed Republican wins across the board, contrasting with Democratic success across the country on ballot initiatives in Ohio, judicial races in Pennsylvania, legislative races in Virginia and the Kentucky governor's race. In Episode 9, Stephen Cobb and Emily Yu parse the 2023 elections and consider the implications for 2024, when 10 states will vote for AG.

A data breach that exposed sensitive data collected in genetic testing that could potentially be used to target vulnerable populations has attracted the attention of Connecticut AG William Tong. In Episode 9, Chris Allen and Hannah Cornett discuss the implications of the breach and consider ways businesses that collect highly sensitive information can anticipate and prepare for data security incid...

In 2020, action by Major League Baseball left 40 minor league teams out in the cold and their communities economically impacted. The minor leagues brought an antitrust suit against the MLB. Now a bipartisan coalition of state AGs has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the MLB’s historic exemption from such an antitrust claim. In Episode 8, Stephen Cobb and Keturah Taylor discuss this action an...

When more than $2 billion was withdrawn from consumer bank accounts without authorization, the AGs took notice. The root cause? A payment processor’s use of real customer data instead of dummy data to test one of its payment products and faulty internal data security controls. In Episode 7, Meghan Stoppel and Emily Yu talk about why AGs are particularly concerned about this kind of consumer harm,...

In addition to serving as consumer guardians, state AGs take their role as custodians of the environment very seriously, as exemplified by a recent action by DC AG Schwalb against electric utility Pepco. In Episode 5, Meghan Schwalb Stoppel and Keturah Taylor consider the ways in which AGs hold businesses accountable for their environmental impact.

In Episode 4, Chris Allen and Emily Yu look at the history of the SAFER Banking Act and consider whether the latest legislative proposal will realize AGs’ bipartisan ambitions for a regulatory and enforcement regime for cannabis that generates additional state revenues, deters bad actors, and provides businesses with predictability and legal certainty.