Today marks the sixth season premiere of our colleague Susan Simpson’s extraordinary podcast Undisclosed, in which she and co-hosts Rabia Chaudry and Colin Miller, “look[] for times when the system got it wrong, where something needs to be fixed, and where through us telling the story we can help advance the cause of justice.”
Read MoreThe firm is thrilled to announce the resounding success of the first art installation of its longtime client and friend, Russell Katz. In a project largely driven by Of Counsel Musetta Durkee—a lawyer with a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts—Clinton & Peed helped Katz negotiate and draft the series of agreements necessary to make the installation a business success.
Read MoreA recent story in DC-area news source WTOP quotes partner Greg Lipper in connection with a story about 41 individuals arrested in Adams Morgan for charges ranging from felony rioting to assaulting a police officer. The D.C. Superior Court appointed Mr. Lipper to represent the only person among those 41 protesters that the government elected to press charges against. That individual has been charged with misdemeanor assaulting a police officer.
Read MoreLed by partner, Alec Rosenberg, C&P was thrilled to represent The Demex Group ("Demex") and its Founder and CEO, Edward Byrns, in connection with a management-led spinoff, foundational tech transfer transactions, and a simultaneous investment from a consortium of leading venture capital firms.
Read MoreOur partner Greg Lipper is quoted in Vox.com’s explainer on Monday’s Supreme Court decision in a major church-state-separation case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. In the 5–4 decision, the Court held that under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, Montana may not exclude religious entities from a tax-credit program that funds scholarships to private secondary schools. Greg, who filed an amicus brief on behalf of several major disability-rights organizations, explained how the decision will inevitably lead to more discrimination against and segregation of children with disabilities.
Read MoreOur partner Greg Lipper is quoted in Friday’s recent NBC article about how the Department of Justice has brought criminal rioting charges against protesters—without any evidence that the charged individuals were involved in any actual rioting or violence, and based solely on information from posts on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The posts included a rudimentary napalm recipe that is widely available online and a tweet joking that its author is a local head of antifa.
Read MoreWashington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected founding partner Tim Clinton to its list of "Super Lawyers" for 2020. Mr. Clinton (pictured here with his wife Desiree and their three children) was first selected to this list in 2016 and has remained on the list for five years running. Before that, he and partner Matt Peed were selected for inclusion in the list of "Rising Stars" for 2014 and 2015; partner Greg Lipper was selected for inclusion in the “Rising Stars” list in 2013; and partner Alec Rosenberg was selected for inclusion in the “SuperLawyers” lists of 2014 and 2015.
Read MoreOur partner Greg Lipper is quoted in a recent CNN article about outbreaks of coronavirus in the D.C. jail and, more generally, outbreaks of the virus in jails and prisons more generally. Lipper, who handles both criminal trials and criminal appeals in the District, explains: "Even the best run, most humane, most medically up to date jail is a giant petri dish. You have lots and lots of people living in close quarters. Social distancing is virtually impossible," said Greg Lipper, a DC-based defense attorney who has clients in the jail. "Most jails, especially city jails, have a lot of people going in and out. DC is no different."
Read MoreEarlier this week Clinton & Peed filed a brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rule that the District’s Anti-SLAPP Act—a law that protects people and organizations against abusive SLAPP suits designed to harass public advocates and censor public advocacy—applies to cases brought in federal court. The amicus brief, filed in Tah v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., was filed on behalf of eleven prominent public-interest advocacy organizations.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, March 3, Clinton & Peed filed an amicus brief on behalf of four congressional scholars telling the Supreme Court that the subpoenas for Trump’s financial records fall comfortably with the 200-year tradition of congressional investigation of the president and other high-ranking government officials.
Read MoreLate on Monday night, March 2, 2020, C&P Partner Matthew Peed had the great privilege to welcome our client David Wilson as he walked out of D.C. jail to freedom for the first time after 18 years of incarceration.
Read MoreThe Irish Legal 100 has selected founding partner Tim Clinton to its list of approximately 200 honorees from around the United States for 2019. The Irish Legal 100 describes itself this way:
The Irish Legal 100, founded in 2008 by the Irish Voice newspaper in New York, is an annual compilation of the most distinguished legal professionals in the United States who share one common bond: pride in their Irish roots. . . .
Read MoreToday we are pleased to announce that Musetta Durkee has joined Clinton & Peed as Of Counsel. Before joining Clinton & Peed, Musetta was a senior associate in the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Musetta earned her undergraduate degree from Columbia University, holds a Master’s degree in performance studies from NYU, and received her juris doctorate from U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
Read MoreToday we welcome lawyer, blogger, and podcaster Susan Simpson, who joins Clinton & Peed as Of Counsel. Susan is an experienced criminal and civil litigator known for her creativity, tenacity, and relentless pursuit of evidence. She previously served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney and then practiced white-collar criminal defense and commercial litigation at a small firm in the District of Columbia.
Read MorePartner Greg Lipper is quoted in a new article, from the Society for Neuroscience’s BrainFacts.org, about how teenage brains are treated in the adult world. In particular, Greg addressed courts’ use of brain science in criminal and constitutional cases, in which 18 is often but not always “a legally significant age.” In “a worst-case scenario,” he added, “information about the teenage brain could be used to limit the rights of teenagers even more than they are limited now.”
Read MoreWashington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected founding partner Tim Clinton to its list of "SuperLawyers" for 2019. Mr. Clinton was first selected to this list in 2016 and has remained on the list for four years running. Before that, he and partner Matt Peed were selected for inclusion in the list of "Rising Stars" for 2014 and 2015; partner Greg Lipper was selected for inclusion in the “Rising Stars” list in 2013; and partner Alec Rosenberg was selected for inclusion in the “SuperLawyers” lists of 2014 and 2015.
Read MorePartner Greg Lipper is quoted by Courthouse News Service in an article on the invasion-of-privacy prosecutions against two anti-abortion activists who secretly recorded Planned Parenthood staff at conferences and restaurants and then selectively edited the recordings to suggest that Planned Parenthood was trying to sell fetal tissue.
Read MoreRecently, the D.C. Superior Court, Honorable Michael L. Rankin, granted (in part) Clinton & Peed’s motion for partial summary judgment in a novel wrongful death case, Kaba v. El Tio of D.C., Case No. 2017 CA 6032 B (D.C. Sup. filed Aug. 30, 2017), involving over-service of alcohol to a person of “notoriously intemperate habits.”
Read MoreToday Clinton & Peed has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate our clients’ legal challenges to coercive probation orders, issued in Montgomery, Alabama without judicial review or approval. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that our clients’ lawsuits were barred by the Rooker–Feldman doctrine, a judge-made jurisdictional rule barring federal courts from hearing lawsuits challenging state-court judgments.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome Alec Rosenberg as a partner, effective April 1, 2019. Alec, Tim, and Greg have known each other since their days as litigation associates in Covington & Burling's Washington, DC office, when Alec served as Tim’s senior "associate mentor." We have kept in touch with Alec, and have worked with him in various capacities, since then, including during his time as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice of Arent Fox (Washington, DC).
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