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The Hill Calls PG's Latest Hire "GOP Firepower"
February 9, 2012

The chief of staff for an influential House committee is headed to the Podesta Group, adding to the GOP firepower at the firm. Sean McLaughlin will start as a principal at the Podesta Group on March 5. McLaughlin leaves the House Judiciary Committee, where he has been a lead GOP staffer for five years in a variety of positions.
The National Law Journal
July 13, 2010

Some would call it a miracle -- a technology that allows paralyzed people to regain use of their limbs via tiny electric pulses from implanted devices. Others see it as an unacceptably risky use of crowded public airwaves.

Now pending before government regulators is a request by the nonprofit Alfred Mann Foundation for use of four highly coveted bands of electromagnetic spectrum. The spectrum is necessary to transmit the pulses, which restore movement by stimulating the muscles of stroke or spinal cord injury victims.
Multichannel
February 23, 2009

As Kermit the Frog often says, “It’s not easy being green.” It’s also not easy for producers of quality children’s programming to get their shows on cable and satellite television today. The problem isn’t a lack of good programming — rather, independent producers of quality children’s TV shows aren’t able to get their product delivered to a large enough audience to make the effort economically viable. The growing problem of access to the nation’s pay TV systems is serious, and the new Congress and FCC should push an agenda that gets quality children’s programming on television.

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Air Traffic Control: Navigating the Crowded Waves of the Spectrum Debate
October 6, 2011

One of my many humorous memories as a Capitol Hill intern is my abject failures with the fax machine. Then, it was a state-of-the art machine: a whirling little cylinder loaded with expensive silver-toned paper that was a devil to operate and equally difficult to decipher when the written product emerged. I bid that machine a fond farewell.

Today, we're a society on the go. We want our information and entertainment to be available at the touch of a finger. (Oh, and make that all free, if you please.)
The New York Times
May 21, 2010

IN the 1990s, Gary Reback, a Silicon Valley lawyer, almost single-handedly brought the antitrust weight of the federal government down on that era’s high-tech heavyweight, Microsoft. Now Mr. Reback contends there is a dangerous new monopolist in the catbird seat: the search giant Google.
Ms.JD
April 29, 2010

Practicing attorneys are not the only Deal Makers and Breakers in the corporate setting, and they aren’t the only one with a law degree. This month’s column features Beth Inadomi, a Principal at top government relations and public affairs firm, the Podesta Group. Her full bio appears at the end of the interview.

Ms. Inadomi isn’t the traditional corporate law firm “Deal Maker and Breaker,” but she is definitely a female powerhouse. Below, read how she turned her interest in “space law” into a full-time legal career and created her own path to success.