The Washington Post has since reported that at some point, the Office of General Counsel (OGC) at FDA became involved and authorized the computer surveillance.
After studying at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Mr. Johnson became assistant general counsel at the Pennsylvania Railroad.
As a lawyer himself, and the bank's general counsel at the time of the Countrywide purchase, Mr Moynihan is in a good position to judge.
Previously, she was Senior Deputy General Counsel at the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) from 2004 to 2009 and Of Counsel at the law firm of Bernabei and Katz from 2003 to 2004.
"I think the Fed has established a menu of things that will give them much more power than they've ever had before, " says Peter Wallison, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former general counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department.
Dan Yager, general counsel at the HR Policy Association in Washington, D.
"We have not seen a spike or trend in complaints to the agencies that reflects that this is a growing problem, " said Michael Altschul, senior vice president and general counsel at CTIA-The Wireless Association, the main trade group for cellphone companies.
He was the assistant general counsel of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the time and he had the final say on all new lawyers the agency hired.
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Jill Lesser, assistant general counsel at AOL, said the service doesn't have another way to identify parental consent.
Bansal is the General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President.
Wildman, an assistant general counsel at Wal-Mart in the U.S., worked in the company's India headquarters from last July to February to set up procedures for complying with the FCPA, which prohibits U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign officials.
Mutterperl, the former general counsel and executive vice president at FleetBoston Financial (nyse: FBF - news - people ).
Ms. Gorelick, who now is at WilmerHale, worked at Justice during the Clinton administration and also is a former general counsel for the Defense Department.
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One of those private e-mails at issue involved an exchange between Martin and Vickie Patton, the General Counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund, regarding an arranged meeting with him.
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At the same time, cloud computing raises a variety of legal issues that General Counsel must master.
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"While it is laudable and desirable to have a Supreme Court that reflects a diversity of views and backgrounds, Justices must check these at the Supreme Court door, " Raquel Rodriguez, a Miami attorney who was general counsel to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, said in a prepared statement.
When faced with a hack attack, no corporate general counsel would ever authorize his company to employ cyber ninjas to hack back at the hackers out of concern for legal liabilities.
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Before becoming Pfizer's chief lawyer in 2002, he was general counsel at McDonald's, where he'd been entrusted with turning around the Boston Market chain.
Beginning at the end, right before the notarization, there is a statement signed by Diana Weiss, the General Counsel of PWC certifying that the letter has been signed by the firm and is an authentic document prepared by the firm.
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Yet Chesapeake had decided that at current low prices the Collingwood Shale wasn't worth drilling after all, says Henry Hood, Chesapeake's general counsel.
Yesterday's public spat between Plaid AMs Simon Thomas and Lord Elis-Thomas in the chamber over the appointment of the Counsel General was ugly, and Jocelyn Davies' stumble into Carwyn Jones' big clunking fist at FMQs even uglier.
When asked why he does not ask Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint a special counsel, as he did for Whitewater, the president said at that time there was no current law on the books describing the threshold.
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