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State Attorneys General

Recommended for its ‘specialized expertise and well-established relationships’, the State Attorneys General team at WilmerHale offers expertise handling matters spanning the technology, financial services, and life sciences sectors. The team has experience handling matters across all 50 states, as well as in the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, including multistate AG investigations. Paul Connell co-heads the Washington-DC based team, bringing ’strong connections’ and experience as a former Chief Deputy Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Co-head Swain Wood is ‘incredibly knowledgeable and strategic’ and leverages experience gained as the first Assistant Attorney General of North Carolina to advise clients on complex regulatory and legal matters. For matters involving cybersecurity issues, Ariel Dobkin is particularly recommended.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team possesses specialized expertise and well-established relationships that enable them to address issues swiftly and effectively at both the national and state levels within the Attorney General practice area. Every request I have made has been handled promptly and with the highest degree of professionalism.’

  • ‘WilmerHale has hired some of the strongest lawyers in the AG space. Paul Connell has strong connections with red states. Swain Wood is not only well connected in the attorney general world, he is also incredibly knowledgeable and strategic as a lawyer and litigator. This is the practice I would go to for hard legal problems and representation. ’

  • ‘Paul Connell and Ariel Dobkin are outstanding attorneys within the Attorney General space. They consistently demonstrate exceptional legal expertise and cultivate strong, effective relationships. Their addition to our legal team represents a significant enhancement, bringing both excellence in legal acumen and collaborative partnership to our organization.’

  • ‘Great bipartisan credentials’

  • ‘Paul Connell and Swain Wood are fantastic ’

  • ‘Swain Wood is not only well connected in the attorney general world, he is also incredibly knowledgeable and strategic as a lawyer and litigator.'

Practice head

Paul Connell; Swain Wood

Other key lawyers

Ariel Dobkin