The Association for Accessible Medicines, which represents generic drugmakers, is expanding its roster of hired guns.

Ballard Partners has launched a new practice group dedicated to helping clients navigate the geopolitical upheaval under way across the Western Hemisphere.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has registered to lobby for a half-dozen local government clients previously represented by lobbyists who decamped for Holland & Knight last year.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, the accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, are making a novel argument to get their client’s death penalty case thrown out.

The move is the firm’s largest expansion to date, raising its total number of offices to five from its current two locations in Washington and Boston.

New Jersey-based government affairs shop MAD Global Strategy is expanding to D.C.

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy is joining Miller Strategies, the lobbying shop led by top GOP fundraiser Jeff Miller, as of counsel.

The capital’s lobbyist class is preparing for a 2026 that promises to be just as tumultuous as last year.

Social media platforms have spent the past three years fending off congressional efforts that would force platforms to take a firmer hand in mitigating issues related to mental health, addiction and bullying of kids and teens online.

“A federal judge in Brooklyn on Monday declared a mistrial in the case of Linda Sun, a former aide to Democratic governors who was accused of working as an agent of China, after jurors said they could not reach a verdict,” The New York Times’ Santul Nerkar and Anusha Bayya report.

A nicotine pouch startup aiming to compete with Zyn has hired Checkmate Government Relations as its first Washington lobbying firm.