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Arent Fox Schiff, the Glossary

ArentFox Schiff LLP is a white shoe law firm and lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C., with offices in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and Lake Forest.^[1]

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Law firms established in 1942
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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media) is a media company headquartered in the Socony–Mobil Building in Manhattan, and is a provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal, insurance, and commercial real estate sectors.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a college town and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.

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Automotive industry

The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.

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Bankruptcy in the United States

In the United States, bankruptcy is largely governed by federal law, commonly referred to as the "Bankruptcy Code" ("Code").

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Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services.

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Bob Bennett (politician)

Robert Foster Bennett (September 18, 1933 – May 4, 2016) was an American politician and businessman who served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1993 to 2011.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Byron Dorgan

Byron Leslie Dorgan (born May 14, 1942) is an American author, businessman and former politician who served as a United States Representative (1981–1992) and United States Senator (1992–2011) from North Dakota.

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Carol A. Beier

Carol Ann Beier (born September 27, 1958) is a former justice of the Kansas Supreme Court appointed by Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chris Van Hollen

Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (born January 10, 1959) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maryland since 2017.

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Construction

Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations.

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Corporate finance

Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources.

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Corporate law

Corporate law (also known as company law or enterprise law) is the body of law governing the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations and businesses.

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Corporation

A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.

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Dale Bumpers

Dale Leon Bumpers (August 12, 1925 – January 1, 2016) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas (1971–1975) and in the United States Senate (1975–1999).

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David J. Bardin

David Jonas Bardin (born June 2, 1933) is a retired American government official who served as Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration in 1977 as well as Administrator of the Economic Regulatory Administration in the United States Department of Energy.

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Deborah K. Owen

Deborah Kaye Owen is an American attorney who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from October 25, 1989, to August 26, 1994.

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Doug Jones (politician)

Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021.

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Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (codified in part at) is a U.S. federal tax and labor law that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry.

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Energy industry

The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution.

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Entertainment law

Entertainment law, also referred to as media law, is legal services provided to the entertainment industry.

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Federal Energy Administration

The Federal Energy Administration (FEA) was a United States government organization created in 1974 to address the 1970s energy crisis, and specifically the 1973 oil crisis.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Fred Thompson

Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality.

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Fred Thompson 2008 presidential campaign

The 2008 presidential campaign of Fred Thompson, lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Senator from Tennessee began on September 5, 2007 after six months of speculation.

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General counsel

A general counsel, also known as chief counsel or chief legal officer (CLO), is the chief in-house lawyer for a company or a governmental department.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Hospitality industry

The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and beverage services, event planning, theme parks, travel agency, tourism, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and bars.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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International trade law

International trade law includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between countries.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jim Talent

James Matthes Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician who was a U.S. Senator from Missouri from 2002 to 2007.

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John Culver

John Chester Culver (August 8, 1932 – December 26, 2018) was an American politician, writer, and lawyer who was elected to both the United States House of Representatives (1965–1975) and United States Senate (1975–1981) from Iowa.

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Kansas Supreme Court

The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Lake Forest, Illinois

Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

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Law firm

A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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Limited liability partnership

A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a partnership in which some or all partners (depending on the jurisdiction) have limited liabilities.

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List of governors of Arkansas

The governor of Arkansas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Lobbying in the United States

Lobbying in the United States is paid activity in which special interest groups hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress.

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Lorie Skjerven Gildea

Lorie Skjerven Gildea (born October 6, 1961) is an American attorney.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Loyalty program

A loyalty program or a rewards program is a marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of one or more businesses associated with the program.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Maryland's 8th congressional district

Maryland's 8th congressional district is concentrated almost entirely in Montgomery County, with a small portion in Prince George's County.

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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Metaverse law refers to legal systems, policies and theories concerning metaverse technologies involving virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and hyperreality.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Minnesota Supreme Court

The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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National Security Advisor (United States)

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (NSA),The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.

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Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district

Pennsylvania's third congressional district includes several areas of the city of Philadelphia, including West Philadelphia, most of Center City, and parts of North Philadelphia.

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Phil English

Philip Sheridan English (born June 20, 1956) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995–2009 from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, representing the state's 3rd Congressional district.

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Pierre-Richard Prosper

Pierre-Richard Prosper (born September 19, 1963) is an American lawyer, prosecutor and former government official.

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Prosecutor

A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in civil law.

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Randall Boe

Randall Boe (born 1962) is the former General Counsel for AOL and has been involved in several cases regarding internet law.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Robert C. O'Brien

Robert Charles O'Brien Jr. (born June 18, 1966) is an American attorney who served as the twenty-seventh United States national security advisor from 2019 to 2021.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Schiff Hardin

Schiff Hardin LLP was a national law firm with more than 300 attorneys practicing out of seven offices nationwide — Ann Arbor, Chicago, Lake Forest, New York, Newport Beach, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

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Sweepstake

In the United States, a sweepstake is a type of contest where a prize or prizes may be awarded to a winner or winners.

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Tax law

Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a legal context.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arent_Fox_Schiff

Also known as Arent Fox, Arent Fox LLP, Arent Fox PLLC, Arent Fox Schiff LLP, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn.

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Law firms established in 1942

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