Paul W. Connell joins legislation agency Cozen O’Connor in Chicago

Paul W. Connell has joined Cozen O’Connor as a member of the Point out Lawyers Standard Team. He will do the job out of the firm’s Chicago and Washington, D.C. workplaces.

Connell served as deputy lawyer common and senior counsel to Wisconsin Lawyer Basic Brad D. Schimel from 2015 to 2019. In that position, he directed authorized method in all the state’s considerable multistate client security circumstances and suggested condition businesses and the Business office of Governor. As the major lawful adviser to Lawyer Normal Schimel, Connell developed and executed major policy initiatives that profoundly and positively impacted all elements of the point out economy.

An knowledgeable trial law firm, strategic adviser, and skillful negotiator adept at navigating the complex state AG natural environment, Connell has been at the forefront of primary corporate responses to multistate enforcement steps and investigations. His exercise encompasses matters involving state lawyers common and the U.S. Department of Justice in consumer safety, privacy, and environmental law throughout a varied range of industries, like technologies, pharmaceuticals, producing, and wellness care.

“Cozen O’Connor’s nationally recognized State Lawyers Basic Exercise advises our clientele on intricate and elaborate regulatory issues and governing administration investigations that impact their enterprise, and even their very existence,” claimed Lori Kalani, co-chair, Cozen O’Connor Condition Lawyers Standard Follow. “Bringing Paul on board more improves our capacity to provide shoppers nationwide throughout myriad industries.”

Co-chair Bernie Nash additional, “Paul stands as a single of the most highly regarded and trusted former chief deputies, and we are humbled by his joining our Point out AG Team.”

Connell’s remarkable observe file includes favourable outcomes in matters involving privacy and info security (including the Children’s On the web Privacy Safety Act (COPPA)), misleading trade techniques, false marketing, antitrust, rate-repairing, and wellness treatment fraud.

Prior to his appointment as Deputy Lawyer Standard, Connell served as a federal prosecutor for 12 many years in the Western District of Wisconsin. During his tenure, he worked carefully with the FBI and other federal agencies and led hundreds of grand jury investigations, which includes personally arguing extra than two dozen instances on attractiveness prior to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals. He handled hundreds of instances and attempted sophisticated conditions involving cash laundering and bank fraud, ERISA, firearms, and drug trafficking.

Connell used the early section of his career in a securities enforcement exercise team where he distinguished himself defending a major investment decision lender versus a vast-ranging inquiry into conflict of pursuits in between the expense bankers and telecom analysts. He labored closely with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Countrywide Affiliation of Securities Sellers, and the U.S. Section of Justice. He also had the distinction of getting a member of the group that represented the Distinctive Committee to the board of administrators of Enron Corporation and helped draft the Powers Report, detailing Enron’s misuse of mark-to-market accounting and other fraudulent enterprise methods, sooner or later primary to the company’s bankruptcy.

“Paul provides a depth of experience and very important interactions in the sophisticated world of attorneys basic, with the addition of a major background doing work in the money regulatory enforcement and investigations arenas. These are very important skill sets and knowledge that will enormously profit Cozen O’Connor shoppers in Chicago and throughout the nation,” reported Jeremy J. Glenn, Cozen O’Connor’s Chicago Business Managing Associate.

“I am enthusiastic about the possibility to add my abilities and experience to Cozen O’Connor’s very regarded and broad-reaching Condition AG Team,” mentioned Connell. “My initially-hand working experience in an AG office, together with the networks I have developed, will make it possible for me effectively to guide and protect clients’ business and strategic interests.”

The addition of Connell additional strengthens Cozen O’Connor’s Condition AG apply, a team of 16 attorneys who commit their practice to understanding and decoding this sophisticated region of legislation and who have deep and long-standing experienced relationships with AGs and their senior personnel. It reinforces the firm’s commitment to a person of the most challenging and significantly major places of regulatory enforcement and litigation, especially considering the ongoing ramifications of the pandemic and the approaching modify in administration.

Connell earned his B.A. from the College of Wisconsin, Parkside, wherever he graduated cum laude. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Marquette University Legislation School, exactly where he was the executive editor of the Marquette Law Review.

About Cozen O’Connor

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