Arnold & Porter LLP - Whistleblower Law Blog http://whistleblower.labovick.com/articles/legal-news-breaking-stories/ en-us Copyright 2008 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:27:36 -0500 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:25:41 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Accenture Hires Lobbyist for Contracting Recent reports show that,  Arnold & Porter LLP has been retained by Accenture to lobby the federal government. They will be using Partner, Jim Turner, a distinguished former congressman, as a lobbyist for Accenture.  This should prove helpful to Accenture, since Jim Turner,  was a ranking member of several Government committees, such as the Government Reform and Oversight Committee’s Government Management, Information, and Technology Subcommittee, when he was in public office as a Congressman.

A few months back, we wrote a post on the Whistleblower Law Blog, about the Government intervening in whistleblower lawsuits against Accenture, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard regarding kickback payments to federal consultants for government technology contracts.

It will be interesting to see if the new alliance with Arnold & Porter LLP helps Accenture in the whistleblower lawsuit.  Time will tell... 

Click here to read more on this from an Associated Press article.

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