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In our second special episode to mark International Women's Day 2025, we catch up with inspiring women who are paving the way in professional services marketing and business development. They share their top tips for firms looking to accelerate action and promote equality within their organizations. Our incredible guests discuss the importance of transparent paths to promotion, the significant impact of leading by example, and why creating a safe space for authenticity is crucial to fostering equality in the industry. A big thanks to all of our guests for their generous contributions to this important conversation: Amelia Calloway, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Morris Manning & Martin Amanda Lindley, Director of Business Development, Thompson Coburn Ashley Horne, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, Womble Bond Dickinson, US Bonnelle Martin, Associate Director - Marketing and Brand, Baker Botts Heather Reid, Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer, Miles & Stockbridge Kim Lansdown, Director of Strategy and Marketing, Fladgate Kelby Luther, Chief Business Development and Marketing Officer, Allen Matkins Michelle Powell, Sr. Manager of Marketing and Business Development, Axinn Rachel Watson, Director of Business Development, Client Development and Campaigns, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld  Savannah Kirk, Public Relations and Communications Coordinator, Jones Walker Stefanie Nastou, Chief Marketing Officer, AMS

By the time of the National Lawyers Convention, the American electorate will have decided on a new president and, with him or her, a new administration. What will a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris administration mean for American business? How will the new administration handle corporate tax, federal regulations, agency guidance, antitrust questions, and helming the administrative state in a post-Chevron world? How should American companies, and their in-house counsels, prepare for the next four years?Featuring:Hon. Brenna Bird, Attorney General, IowaMr. Martine Cicconi, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLPMr. Jesse Panuccio, Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner LLPModerator: Hon. Rachel Brand, Executive Vice President of Global Governance, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart Inc.

Joe Wolfe, Attorney, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, speaks with Robert S. Salcido, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, about the current landscape of the False Claims Act (FCA) in the health care industry. They discuss the recent district court opinion declaring the FCA's qui tam provisions unconstitutional (Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates LLC), enforcement trends and case law developments, the impact of Loper Bright, trends related to Civil Investigative Demands and self-disclosures, and emerging hot topics. Robert is author of AHLA's False Claims Act & the Health Care Industry, Fifth Edition. From AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group.Watch the conversation here.To learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community, visit americanhealthlaw.org.

The rivalry between the US and China about technological and military leadership has one key component: export controls.  What is the cutting edge of the United States' export controls? What do they entail and what role do Washington's international partners play? Can and will they be effective?In this episode, MERICS Lead Analyst Rebecca Arcesati and Communications Manager Johannes Heller-John are joined by Kevin Wolf, a partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's international trade practice. From 2010 until 2017, he served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration in the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the US Department of Commerce and is a renowned expert on export controls.You can find the report "Keeping value chains at home: How China controls foreign access to technology and what it means for Europe" on our website.

Clete R. Willems is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Geo-Economics Center. Willems is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he advises multinational companies, investors, and trade associations on international economic law and policy matters. Until April 2019, Willems was deputy assistant to the president for international economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council. In this role, he was a key negotiator with foreign governments, including China and the European Union, and the president's lead negotiator at the G-7, G-20, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum. Prior to joining the White House, Willems was a trade negotiator and WTO litigator at the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). He also worked as legislative director for Congressman Paul Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The last few years have accelerated the need for CMOs to be changemakers. More than ever, CMOs are able to drive much-needed transformation both within the marketing team and across the wider firm. This week on the CMO series, Alistair Bone is fortunate to be joined by Shade Vaughn, Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to discuss the role of the CMO as a changemaker and what driving change looks like in practice. Shade and Ali discuss:  Shade's career journey and how he came to his current role at Akin The point in that journey that driving transformation became integral  The importance of ‘intent' and Shade's previous experience in this area How that approach translates in Shade's work at Akin and how that aligns with the marketing efforts at the firm The next technology Shade has set his sights on The biggest mistakes CMOs make in driving change The sub-skills and experience that marketers looking to become CMOs should develop now Advice for others looking to be a changemaker across their legal marketing career

Michele C. Meyer-Shipp was announced as CEO of Dress for Success Worldwide, the leading global nonprofit employment resource for women, on January 12, 2022. Michele leads the organization's 144 affiliates in 23 countries as it continues its mission to help women achieve economic independence via a suite of services to include job readiness support, professional development resources, coaching and mentorship, and workplace attire. Michele joins Dress for Success from Major League Baseball, where she served as Chief People & Culture Officer. While at MLB, Michele led the human resources, diversity and inclusion, and office operations functions for the League Office with an emphasis on launching new programs and policies to recruit and develop talent, advancing diversity and inclusion efforts, and enhancing workplace culture. She also served as a senior advisor to the Commissioner as well as leaders across 30 major league baseball teams and multiple Minor League teams. Prior to MLB, Michele served as Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at KPMG LLP, where she led initiatives relating to talent recruitment, development, and retention; supported the efforts of leaders across KPMG's 85+ national offices; and managed a portfolio of external strategic partnerships. Previously, she served as Global Chief Diversity Officer for both Prudential Financial and the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Michele spent the first decade of her career practicing employment law in both the private and public sectors, where she advised clients on optimizing talent and implementing equitable workplace initiatives. Meyer-Shipp is a graduate of Rutgers University and Seton Hall University School of Law. Michele is a sought-after speaker and has served as a Yahoo! Finance News Contributor and been featured in top media outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Savoy Magazine, Black Enterprise, CORE Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Woman Magazine, Quartz, Inc., and more. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including The Network Journal's "25 Influential Black Women in Business" (2021), Core Magazine's “100 Most Influential Blacks Today” (2021), Black Enterprise's "Portraits of Power" (2020), and Business Insider's "38 Power Players of Consulting" (2020). She is a member of the Boards of the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) and the Fritz Pollard Alliance Foundation. linkedin.com/in/mmeyershipp @mmeyer_shipp --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toby-usnik/support

John is joined by Thomas Krueger, the Former Director of Strategic Trade and Nonproliferation for the National Security Council and current Senior Policy Advisor at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.Together, they discuss the latest regulatory controls on high-tech exports to both Russia and China, explaining the legal basis for these restrictions, the specific technologies involved and the efforts made to get European and Asian allies to join in these restrictions.  If you enjoy this episode, please leave a like, review, or comment on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any major podcast platform.Check out all the latest episodes at: www.law-disrupted.fm/Keep up to date with John Quinn on Twitter: @jbqlaw

The BTLJ Podcast team sits down with Professor Jürgen Kühling, a member of the German Monopolies Commission, to discuss the implications of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for big tech companies and consumers. The Digital Markets Act recently went into effect on November 1, 2022, when this interview was recorded. For more reading on this subject, refer to the following links: Bill Batchelor, Frederic Depoortere, Aurora Luoma, Giorgio Motta, and Ingrid Vandenborre, EU Digital Markets Act Enters Into Force on November 1, Creating New Regulatory Regime for Large Tech Platforms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Oct. 12, 2022), https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2022/10/eu-digital-markets-act-enters-into-force#:~:text=The%20DMA%20sets%20out%20rules,and%20national%20competition%20law%20rules Digital Markets Act - The New Era of EU Digital Regulation for Big Tech, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (June 1, 2022), https://www.akingump.com/en/news-insights/digital-markets-actthe-new-era-of-eu-digital-regulation-for-big-tech.html. Ryan Browne, EU targets U.S. tech giants with a new rulebook aimed at curbing their dominance, CNBC (Mar. 25, 2022, 5:41 AM), https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/digital-markets-act-eu-targets-big-tech-with-sweeping-new-antitrust-rules.html Bipartisan Lawmakers Urge President Biden to Demand Changes to Discriminatory EU Tech Bill, U.S. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (Feb. 23, 2022), https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3047 Stefan Modrich and David DiMolfetta, Big fines can scare Big Tech, but enforcing Digital Markets Act is key – experts, S&P Global Market Intelligence (Apr. 1, 2022), https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/big-fines-can-scare-big-tech-but-enforcing-digital-markets-act-is-key-8211-experts-69620415

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, AHLA has partnered with the Hispanic National Bar Association to present this three-part series highlighting the career journeys of Latino/Latina health law leaders. In the second episode, Gelvina Rodriguez Stevenson, Vice President, General Counsel, The Wistar Institute, and Esteban Rodriguez, Counsel, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, speak with Jorge Lopez, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Prior to that role, Jorge was head of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Field's health care and life sciences practice and served as a legal advisor to Bill Clinton's presidential campaign from 1991-1992.

Federal agencies would have to consolidate software licenses and share more information about software purchases under a bill that's advancing through the Senate. Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and former administrator for federal procurement policy, discusses the impact this would have on the federal contracting community. At DefenseTalks, Acting Director of the Defense Innovation Unit Mike Madsen tells DefenseScoop's Brandi Vincent about how events around the world are impacting DIU's mission. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

Congratulations, Ike Emehelu, on your new role as Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP! Although Ike knew he wanted to be a lawyer from his earliest days in Nigeria, he never imagined he would get to work on two of the three largest onshore wind projects in the U.S. Focusing almost exclusively on renewable energy project finance since 2008, Ike has worked on impactful projects throughout Africa, Latin America & the US, including through the Energy Access Relief Fund, which provided support to energy entrepreneurs facing liquidity challenges due to COVID-19. In this Green Light episode, Catherine speaks with Ike about his career journey in clean energy as well as the key trends that he thinks will make or break renewable energy in M&A in the coming years.Are you looking for your next role in climate tech? Join the largest growing network of cleantech professionals and be the first to know about when industry leading cleantech companies first post new job openings, from development to finance to marketing, by checking out our website: dylan-green.com/latest-jobs.

Jamil Hasan catches up with David Kay, from Liti Capital to learn more about this important topic Representing traders financially injured on Binance and the importance of Blockchain Ethics with David Kay @ Liti Capital David Kay Executive Chairman & Chief Investment Ofcer, Liti Capital NYC-based David Kay is the Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Ofcer of Liti Capital. A qualified lawyer and investment banker, and one of the most successful and in-demand litigation finance strategists in the history of the 15-year-old litigation finance industry, David joined Liti Capital in early 2021. Before joining Liti Capital, David provided board representation, corporate governance, capital raising, and strategic planning advisory services to several public and private multi-billion dollar organizations. He has proven expertise in complex conflict management and financing processes across various sectors, including but not limited to: multi-jurisdictional litigation and/or arbitration, international law issues, governmental contracts or disputes, judgement enforcement, and forensic asset-tracing. For the better part of the last decade, David was also a Founding Partner and the Portfolio Manager of a US$1 billion+ private equity fund focused on investing in complex commercial litigations and arbitrations around the globe. While at the fund, David conceived and developed an investment strategy that focused on investing in (i) international commercial litigations and arbitrations and (ii) other complex special situations. This strategy was realized by successfully raising two funds, providing the opportunity to create outsized, non-market correlated returns via strategic investments where there was both (i) a strong risk-adjusted return and (ii) an ability to directly/positively impact the outcome. David led the deployment of capital at the funds, and he was responsible for building out the entire team and executing the strategy across approximately 40 investments in more than 17 countries. Prior to that fund experience, David served in the Restructuring and Recapitalization Group at the Jeferies Financial Group. In that role, he was responsible for analyzing and facilitating corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on advising corporate clients and their creditors in large, multifaceted transactions. Representative engagements included: Nortel Networks, The Trump Organization, Verasun Energy Corporation, Delphi Corporation and Hard Rock Park. He also practiced law as an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in the Financial Restructuring Group, where he focused on advising creditors committees and bondholder committees in complex corporate restructurings, both out of court and in Chapter 11. Representative cases included: Delta Airlines, Loral Space & Communications, Calpine Corporation, Anchor Glass Container Corporation and Vertis Communications.David earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law, where he made the Dean's List and wrote for the Urban Law Journal. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, a new chief information officer comes to the Federal Communications Commission. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the first four encryption tools to guard against a cyber attack from a quantum computer. Jim Richberg, public sector field chief information security officer and vice president of information security at Fortinet and former National Intelligence Member for Cyber at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, discusses the value of public-private partnerships in advancing federal cybersecurity. The White House is expanding its diversity, equity, inclusion and equity work to federal acquisition. Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and former administrator for federal procurement policy, explains the impact this will have on the businesses the government looks for and buys from. Security leaders across government say identity management is one of the most important components of zero trust. Shane Barney, chief information security officer at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, tells FedScoop's Billy Mitchell how USCIS is managing its zero trust journey. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

Today's guests: Clete Willems, Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council discussed reports that President Biden is set to roll back some Trump tariffs on Chinese imports to fight inflation, Retired Lieutenant Air Force General David Deptula discusses the state of the Ukraine war, and Bloomberg Politics Contributors Jeanne Sheehan Zaino and Rick Davis discuss Jeff Bezos's criticism of President Joe Biden's tweet calling for oil executives to reduce gasoline prices and the decision by some 4th of July celebration organizers to forgo performing Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" amid the Ukraine war.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this webinar, you can hear Chair Emma Bartlett, CM Murray LLP, and speakers Pooja Dasgupta, CM Murray LLP, Tom Spence, Donoma Advisors and Victoria Widdows, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, discuss the following: 1. The ‘tie-break' provision pursuant to section 159 of the Equality Act 2010, which allows employers to take positive action to promote D&I in a stalemate recruitment and promotion situation. 2. The fine line between positive action and positive discrimination, and how the Cheshire police force got it all wrong in the case of Furlong v Chief Constable of Cheshire Police ET2405577/18. 3. Examples of how to drive positive action within professional services firms, including having designated D&I partners, focus groups, a coaching environment, and the use of quotas as aspirational targets. 4. Social and cultural differences pertaining to recruitment in Germany, the UAE and the USA, and the increased pressure to hire individuals from protected groups. 5. The importance of professional services firms having a strategic approach to recruitment and deeper analysis when identifying suitable candidates, rather than hiring in their own image. If you would like to discuss any of the above issues in further detail or would like any guidance regarding positive action, and avoiding the potential pitfalls, please contact D&I partner Emma Bartlett (emma.bartlett@cm-murray.com)or Senior Associate Pooja Dasgupta (pooja.dasgupta@cm-murray.com), both of whom specialise in partnership and employment law issues for firms, partners, multinational employers and senior executives, and who is also the D&I partner at CM Murray LLP.

Crypto lender #Celsius Network LLC has hired restructuring #attorneys from law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to advise on possible solutions for its mounting #financialproblems, according to people familiar with the matter.

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, government is working with industry to improve how it measures product and service delivery. The Small Business Administration is requesting a FY23 budget boost to help small companies learn how to sell to the government. Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and former administrator for federal procurement policy, discusses the landscape of getting new companies into the federal contracting space. The Air Force is reviewing the results from the BRAVO 0 hackathon earlier this year. On the latest episode of Let's Talk About IT, Air Force Chief Digital Transformation Officer Stuart Wagner joins FedScoop's Billy Mitchell to discuss how USAF is looking to spark innovation and change across the service. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

Significance of the 10th anniversary of the KORUS FTA- 한미 FTA 발표 10주년이 갖는 의의Guest: Clete R. Willems, Former White House Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics; Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLPSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome back to How I Lawyer! In most episodes of the How I Lawyer Podcast I interview individual lawyers about what they do, why they do it, and how they do it well. This special episode is the fourth in a series called "Panel Opinion" where I bring together experts on a particular topic. In this episode I discuss the important topic of oral argument with a superstar panel including Judge Patricia Millett, Joe Palmore, and Professor Tiffany Wright for this discussion. Judge Patricia Millett is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit where she has served since December 2013. Prior to becoming a federal judge, she led the Supreme Court Practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Field LLP in Washington DC. Earlier in her career she spent fifteen years representing the United States of America in the federal courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court while working on the Appellate Staff of the Department of Justice's Civil Division and as an Assistant in the Office of the Solicitor General. In total, she argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court prior to becoming a Judge. She started her career as an associate at Miller & Chevalier and as a law clerk to Judge Thomas Tang on the Ninth Circuit. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois (Go Illini) and Harvard Law School, Go Crimson. Joe Palmore is the co-chair of Morrison & Foerster's Appellate and Supreme Court Practice and Managing Partner of its DC Office. Joe is an experienced appellate advocate with 12 arguments in the US Supreme Court and more than 45 in other appeals courts nationwide. Prior to joining MoFo, Joe served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice for nearly five years where he was responsible for briefing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's Minimum Coverage provision. He started his career as a law clerk to Judge John Gleeson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of New York, Judge Dennis Jacobs of the Second Circuit and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He is graduate of Harvard (Go Crimson) and UVA Law (Go Wahoos). Tiffany Wright is the Co-Director of Howard Law's Civil Rights Clinic and a Senior Associate at Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP. Professor Wright began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Royce Lamberth on the United States District Court in DC, Judge David Tatel on the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the United States Supreme Court. She has recently briefed and argued a number of key Civil Rights cases and was recognized by the National Bar Association as one of the Best Advocates Under 40 and the Nation's Best Advocate of the Year. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland (Go Terps) and the Georgetown University Law Center (Go Hoyas) where she completed her law degree at night while also working full-time as a Law Clerk and Paralegal at the US Attorneys Office for the District of Maryland. Tiffany is also the first return guest to the podcast as her story is featured on Episode #13. If you enjoy this episode, make sure to sign up for future episodes at www.howilawyer.com or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is sponsored, edited, and engineered by LawPods, a professional podcast production company for busy attorneys.

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched its new artificial intelligence website, listing out priorities for 2022. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act allocates $550 billion in federal spending towards new investments in areas like transportation, energy and broadband. Much of this money will be awarded as grants. Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP and former administrator of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget tells Francis how businesses should think differently about federal grants versus contracts. President and CEO at Intrusion and former Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott explains how federal CIO's and chief information security officers should be putting people first when undertaking modernization efforts at their agencies. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

Jamil Hasan catches up with David Kay, from Liti Capital to learn more about this important topic Representing traders financially injured on Binance and the importance of Blockchain Ethics with David Kay @ Liti Capital David Kay Executive Chairman & Chief Investment Ofcer, Liti Capital NYC-based David Kay is the Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Ofcer of Liti Capital. A qualified lawyer and investment banker, and one of the most successful and in-demand litigation finance strategists in the history of the 15-year-old litigation finance industry, David joined Liti Capital in early 2021. Before joining Liti Capital, David provided board representation, corporate governance, capital raising, and strategic planning advisory services to several public and private multi-billion dollar organizations. He has proven expertise in complex conflict management and financing processes across various sectors, including but not limited to: multi-jurisdictional litigation and/or arbitration, international law issues, governmental contracts or disputes, judgement enforcement, and forensic asset-tracing. For the better part of the last decade, David was also a Founding Partner and the Portfolio Manager of a US$1 billion+ private equity fund focused on investing in complex commercial litigations and arbitrations around the globe. While at the fund, David conceived and developed an investment strategy that focused on investing in (i) international commercial litigations and arbitrations and (ii) other complex special situations. This strategy was realized by successfully raising two funds, providing the opportunity to create outsized, non-market correlated returns via strategic investments where there was both (i) a strong risk-adjusted return and (ii) an ability to directly/positively impact the outcome. David led the deployment of capital at the funds, and he was responsible for building out the entire team and executing the strategy across approximately 40 investments in more than 17 countries. Prior to that fund experience, David served in the Restructuring and Recapitalization Group at the Jeferies Financial Group. In that role, he was responsible for analyzing and facilitating corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on advising corporate clients and their creditors in large, multifaceted transactions. Representative engagements included: Nortel Networks, The Trump Organization, Verasun Energy Corporation, Delphi Corporation and Hard Rock Park. He also practiced law as an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in the Financial Restructuring Group, where he focused on advising creditors committees and bondholder committees in complex corporate restructurings, both out of court and in Chapter 11. Representative cases included: Delta Airlines, Loral Space & Communications, Calpine Corporation, Anchor Glass Container Corporation and Vertis Communications.David earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law, where he made the Dean's List and wrote for the Urban Law Journal.

Leveling the Market Playing Field for Hybrid Power Plants The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is an independent agency that, among other things, regulates the interstate transmission of electricity. Its ultimate mission is to “Assist consumers in obtaining economically efficient, safe, reliable, and secure energy services at a reasonable cost through appropriate regulatory and market means, and collaborative efforts.” In the past, FERC has issued important orders, including 841 and 2222, which have helped clear the way for more energy storage to be added to the U.S. power grid. However, Chip Cannon, a partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, who heads the firm's energy regulation, markets, and enforcements practice, believes the playing field requires further leveling for hybrid plants, that is, facilities pairing solar or wind farms with battery storage. Cannon said few hybrid plants existed on the grid a few years ago, but that is changing quickly. In fact, he said there are 102 GW of solar plus storage and 11 GW of wind plus storage capacity in the interconnection queue at the present time. “We have battery storage resources, typically paired with renewables, that are entering the interconnection queue at a very, very fast clip,” Cannon said as a guest on The POWER Podcast. That has created some challenges for the market. “The queue process has not really been set up for accommodating these hybrid resources, and we really don't have very much experience for them in the market,” said Cannon. Hybrid plants offer a number of physical and operational traits that benefit the power grid. Solar and wind resources are obviously intermittent, meaning they only produce power when the sun shines and the wind blows. When paired with energy storage, which can be used to either add or remove energy to and from the grid, intermittency problems can be alleviated. The pairing also improves reliability, flexibility, and resiliency, and can help lower costs for consumers. Cannon explained that all of the regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs), such as PJM, CAISO, and NYISO, establish the “rules of the road” for generators to participate in their energy capacity and ancillary services markets. “But those market rules were not designed to reflect resources that can both take in energy as well as put energy on the grid. So, the concern here right now is that the market designs were simply not set up to accommodate energy storage resources,” Cannon said. While FERC doesn't have the authority to establish rules that promote energy storage, it can look at the existing market rules to see if they are unduly hindering the ability of certain classes of resources to participate and compete in those markets. Cannon said FERC has held a technical conference regarding hybrid resources, which allowed various stakeholders to provide input. It also directed RTOs and ISOs earlier this year to submit information on how their markets are setup to accommodate hybrid resources. Cannon suggested it will be interesting to see how FERC ultimately addresses the issue. “We're definitely at an inflection point in the power sector. I think the power sector has been going through an evolution for a couple of decades since FERC started going down the path of competition, and now we've got this radically new resource mix,” Cannon said. “I'm of the view, though, that the evolution is really turning into a revolution of the power sector with the speed of technological changes and falling prices. So, there's a lot of really good stuff out there.”

Michele Meyer-Shipp was named MLB's Chief People & Culture Officer by Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. in August 2020. In this capacity, Meyer-Shipp oversees all of MLB's human resources activities, including talent processes and programs, workplace culture, and diversity and inclusion. Meyer-Shipp also manages all off-field office operations. Meyer-Shipp joined MLB from “Big 4 Accounting Firm” KPMG LLP, where she has served as Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. While at KPMG, she led all firm programs and initiatives relating to workforce, workplace, and marketplace diversity and inclusion. In addition to overseeing a host of human resource-related initiatives in this role, she consulted with clients on building diverse and inclusive workplaces. Previously, Meyer-Shipp worked for Prudential Financial, serving as Global Chief Diversity Officer for five years, and for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where she was Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Prior to those roles, she spent over a decade practicing employment law in both the public and private sectors, counseling clients on driving equitable talent and workplace practices. Meyer-Shipp has served on many industry and association tasks forces and committees, including Twitter's Diversity Advisory Council, Working Mother Media's Multicultural Advisory Board, National Organization on Disability, and Rutgers University's Student Affairs Executive Advisory Council. She also has been a Contributor to Yahoo! Finance News. Meyer-Shipp has received numerous awards and accolades for her professional accomplishments, including most recently being recognized among the “Top 100 Women of Influence” by Diversity MBA. Meyer-Shipp is a graduate of Rutgers University and Seton Hall University School of Law, and she is certified as a senior human resources professional by the Society of Human Resources Management. Learn more about MLB here Shout-out: Today's Diversity Leader Shout-out goes to Justin Reyes, VP, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Major League Baseball Music: Intro - Vente by Mamá Patxanga is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Outro - Amor Y Felicidad by SONGO 21 is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/si-suite/message

Michele Meyer-Shipp was named MLB's Chief People & Culture Officer by Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. in August 2020. In this capacity, Meyer-Shipp oversees all of MLB's human resources activities, including talent processes and programs, workplace culture, and diversity and inclusion. Meyer-Shipp also manages all off-field office operations. Meyer-Shipp joined MLB from “Big 4 Accounting Firm” KPMG LLP, where she has served as Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. While at KPMG, she led all firm programs and initiatives relating to workforce, workplace, and marketplace diversity and inclusion. In addition to overseeing a host of human resource-related initiatives in this role, she consulted with clients on building diverse and inclusive workplaces. Previously, Meyer-Shipp worked for Prudential Financial, serving as Global Chief Diversity Officer for five years, and for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where she was Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Prior to those roles, she spent over a decade practicing employment law in both the public and private sectors, counseling clients on driving equitable talent and workplace practices. Meyer-Shipp has served on many industry and association tasks forces and committees, including Twitter's Diversity Advisory Council, Working Mother Media's Multicultural Advisory Board, National Organization on Disability, and Rutgers University's Student Affairs Executive Advisory Council. She also has been a Contributor to Yahoo! Finance News. Meyer-Shipp has received numerous awards and accolades for her professional accomplishments, including most recently being recognized among the “Top 100 Women of Influence” by Diversity MBA. Meyer-Shipp is a graduate of Rutgers University and Seton Hall University School of Law, and she is certified as a senior human resources professional by the Society of Human Resources Management. Learn more about MLB here Shout-out: Today's Diversity Leader Shout-out goes to Justin Reyes, VP, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Major League Baseball Music: Intro - Vente by Mamá Patxanga is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Outro - Amor Y Felicidad by SONGO 21 is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/si-suite/message

Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Wednesday. GMEIs George Sherman one of the greatest public-company chief executive officer... April 15, 2019GameStop announcedgot a bargainwill become its chairmanShort squeezeI said selling stock 20% is more than 7% have a ton of money to throw around for celebrity sponsorsfinancial engineering IPO poptiming and certainty advantages market your company based on projectionshere’s today’s Wall Street Journalhere is a memo from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feldhas scolded SPACsthe Delaware courts got sick of itkind of endorsed by the SEC?three guys from Brooklynfor … money … launderingTravel Actpaperrelated blog postthe New York Times reportsindustrialist and soccer magnate Andrea Agnelliwh ntI meanEdgar Loan MarketPlots Rebound Billionaire Teacher From China Cum-Ex TradesFederal Crime Race Car Hobbybowling ballExtra Days Offget birthday presentscompany’s recent talent showwill hostsubscribe at this linkherepaid 4.6%Churchill Capital Corp IVSocial Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. VI

Mark Stoleson is the Chief Executive Officer & Partner of Legatum, a global investment firm based in Dubai with the mission to generate and allocate the capital and ideas that help people prosper. Prior to Legatum, Mark was a corporate finance and M&A attorney with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Mark focuses on simple, big ideas: Where is the growth? What simple idea can they express with a really big company? Points of focus for Legatum include the expansion of China's middle class by 300 million people over the next 10 years, as well as the 450 million unbanked people in India. ————————————————————————— To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit *salt.org/talks* ( http://salt.org/talks ) Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.

In this episode of our monthly series on fraud and abuse issues, Matthew Wetzel, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Kevin Raphael, Partner, Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP talked about several recent settlements involving Patient Assistance Programs. The speakers discuss practical takeaways from the settlements, and why the government has made PAPs an enforcement priority. The podcast is moderated by Shana Goetz, Director, Marketing and Business Development, BRG. From AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. Sponsored by BRG.

In the inaugural episode of our monthly series on fraud and abuse issues, Matthew Wetzel, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, and Kevin Raphael, Partner, Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP, talked with Katherine (Katie) Norris, a Director in BRG’s Corporate Compliance and Risk Management practice, about hot topics and key developments in health care fraud and abuse, as well as recent trends in enforcement, and what to look out for in 2020. From AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. Sponsored by Berkeley Research Group, LLC (BRG).

From Donald Trump’s first utterances as a presidential candidate in 2015 to the hundreds of policy actions undertaken during his administration, immigration has loomed as the major touchstone for his political base. It is the issue to which the president and his administration return again and again. Chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border resulted from a sharp uptick in flows, as well as outmatched policies, infrastructure, and resources. Now, a growing number of Americans cite immigration as one of the most crucial national issues. Yet Congress remains incapable of even small-bore fixes, continuing its nearly two-decade inability to undertake substantive immigration legislation. Vast differences exist among Republican and Democratic politicians and other stakeholders—from “build the wall” and narrowing humanitarian protections on one side, to #AbolishICE and pressing to decriminalize illegal crossings on the other. Whither immigration as high-stakes elections approach in 2020? In this lively State of Play conversation, political and policy experts will explore the politics of immigration, the pitfalls for both political parties, and the potential for a post-election pause in the brinkmanship, along with what other pressing challenges may converge to force action in Washington. Speakers included: Casey Christine Higgins, Former Assistant to the Speaker for Policy and Trade Counsel for former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI); Senior Policy Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP Lomi Kriel, Immigration Correspondent, Houston Chronicle Lorella Praeli, President of Community Change Action and Vice President of Community Change Julia Preston, Contributing Writer, The Marshall Project Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program, MPI

About our Guest:   Benoy Thanjan   Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy and he is also an advisor for several solar startup companies. Reneu Energy is a premier international solar energy consulting firm and developer and the company focuses on developing commercial and industrial solar and utility scale solar plus storage projects. The company also sources financing for solar projects and hedges energy and environmental commodities. Reneu Energy has brokered $27 million in environmental commodities transactions.   Benoy received his first experience in Finance as an intern at D.E. Shaw & Co., which is a global investment firm with 37 billion dollars in investment capital. Before founding Reneu Energy, he was the SREC Trader in the Project Finance Group for SolarCity which merged with Tesla in 2016. He originated SREC trades with buyers and co-developed their SREC monetization and hedging strategy with the senior management of SolarCity to move into the east coast markets. Benoy also worked at Vanguard Energy Partners, Ridgewood Renewable Power, and Deloitte & Touche.   Thom Byrne   Thom Byrne is the Founder and CEO of Clean Capital; a financial technology company that makes it easy to invest in clean energy. Clean Capital has built a proprietary technology platform that identifies, screens, and manages clean energy projects enabling project owners an opportunity to exit their portfolios while providing accredited investors, including institutional investors, family offices, and investment funds, unique access to the clean energy investment market.   Thom received his start in environmental projects with Waterkeeper Alliance, where he helped launch local environmental organizations. After graduating from Berkeley Law school, he received extensive experience in the renewable energy finance arena through the law firms, Chadbourne and Parke, and then Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. Using his experience, Thom dove deeper into renewable energy asset with True Green Capital, before founding Clean Capital. Episode Summary   Thom Byrne shares how as an entrepreneur, he addressed calculated risks to create Clean Capital, a company now providing investment opportunities in the tens of millions of dollars for solar energy. As opposed to smaller investments in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, what was once just a vision, is now injecting tremendous amounts of capital into the solar energy market not just domestically, but internationally as well.     Insight from this episode: How increasing larger institutional capital is vital for growing the renewable energy space. How technology plays a key role in efficient investments. What to look for in a potential market for investment. Strategies for finding solutions to getting capital into new markets. What macro drivers are affecting the Solar market today. How to determine if being an entrepreneur is right for you and if your idea should go to market.   Quotes from the show: “We always wanted to be mission oriented.” Thom Byrne, Episode 14   In regards to the renewable energy market: “Yes you can make money doing it, but it’s an important challenge to be trying to solve.” Thom Byrne, Episode 14 In regards to being an entrepreneur: “Life’s too short and the risk you perceive is not as big a risk as it really is. It’s more fearful when you look out at the risk than when you’re actually living in it.” Thom Byrne, Episode 14 In regards to being an entrepreneur: “There is a risk tolerance that you have to find acceptable. I think most people don’t find it acceptable and they don’t get into entrepreneurship but I would encourage people to evaluate the risk in the grand scheme of things and if you do that, you may find that it’s much more tolerable.” Thom Byrne, Episode 14 In regards to being an entrepreneur: “It’s better to try than to have regret.” Benoy Thanjan, Episode 14 “If you have the appetite to do it, to be an entrepreneur, you have to do it. That bug is not going to go away and you don’t want to wake up with grandchildren and just a story about something you were going to do, rather than having actually tried to do it.” Thom Byrne, Episode 14 “Everyone is talking about storage and how in the market, tariffs and costs continue to go down.” Benoy Thanjan, Episode 14 “A statistic the World Economic Forum put out, is that .5% of any institutional capital being put out is for clean energy.” Thom Byrne, Episode 14     Resources Mentioned: “Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet” by Varun Sivaram “The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future” by Gretchen Bakke   Stay Connected: Benoy Thanjan LinkedIn.com/bthanjan Facebook: Reneu Energy www.reneuenergy.com info@reneuenergy.com   Thom Byrne www.cleancapital.com Experts Only Podcast Linkedin: CleanCapital Facebook: @CleanCapitalCo Twitter: @CleanCapital_ tbyrne@cleancapital.com  

Listen NowIn an extremely busy year for Medicare delivery and payment reform,  regulatory implementation of the 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) stands out.   This past April CMS published the agency's 960-page proposed rule to implement the law.  The proposed rule, that will go final this fall, will change the way Medicare physician payments (Medicare Part B) are annually updated beginning in payment year 2019.   Payment updates, either at the individual provider or at the group level, will be calculated either by the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a composite score based on four, differently weighted, component scores, or via provider participation in what CMS defines as an "advanced" Alternative Payment Model (APM) pathway, e.g., Track 2 and 3 ACOS and Patient Centered Medical Homes that meet certain financial risk criteria.During this 22-minute discussion Ms. Mara McDermott evaluates how CMS proposes to define APM nominal risk, how the agency has defined the MIPS composite score, the effect MACRA will have on small practices, how Medicare Advantage plans and physicians can be included in MACRA, and several inter-related issues.   (While the introduction to this discussion provides some brief explanatory information, our conversation assumes the listener has some familiarity with Title I of the MACRA law.)    Mara McDermott is the Vice President of CAPG (formerly the California Association of Physician Groups) where she leads the organization's federal legislative and regulatory activities in Washington, D.C.  Prior to joining CAPG, Mara was Counsel in the health industry practice of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Field.  Mara received her JD with high honors and her MPH from George Washington University School of Law in 2007.  She received her BA in 2003 from the University of California, Davis.The CMS MACRA proposed rule is at: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/05/09/2016-10032/medicare-program-merit-based-incentive-payment-system-mips-and-alternative-payment-model-apm Information concerning CAPG is at: http://www.capg.org/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

Law firms step up to UAVs, DARPA enlists Northrop Grumman and AeroVironment for TERN, the MQ-4C Triton UAS gets new search radar, the X-47B refuels autonomously, agricultural applications for UAVs, an anti-drone drone, detecting drones by sound, and the FAA clarifies policy for drone online videos. News US firms rush to set up drone departments Michael Drobac is executive director of the Small UAV Coalition, but also the senior policy advisor at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. He says, “'Almost every firm has a drone practice. I'm not sure every firm has a drone client.” 273 Drone Aircraft Carriers? New DARPA Contract Could Be a Game Changer The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants the Navy to be able to launch MALE-class drones from ships at sea. Under the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or TERN program, Northrop Grumman and AeroVironment have been selected to compete the next phase of the program and create systems where unmanned aircraft "take off and land from very confined spaces in elevated sea states and ... to transition to efficient long-duration cruise missions." Triton UAS conducts first flight with search radar The Navy's MQ-4C Triton UAS has completed its inaugural flight with the new Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) search radar. The radar has all-weather capability and provides a 360-degree view of a large geographic area. When operational, the Triton will dwell at high altitudes and provide 24/7 ISR coverage virtually anywhere in the world. Fueled in flight: X-47B first to complete autonomous aerial refueling On April 22. 2015 the first ever Autonomous Aerial Refueling (AAR) of an unmanned aircraft was accomplished with the X-47B. This completed the final test objective under the Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstration program. The aerial refueling was captured on video. Researchers Seeking Agricultural Applications For Unmanned Aircraft The University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center recently hosted the HLB Grower Day and UAV Applications in Agriculture Workshop to look at future applications of UAVs in agriculture. The workshop was coordinated by Dr. Reza Ehsani, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Noting that commercial operations are not yet generally allowed by the FAA, Ehsani said, “It will take at least a year until the proposed rules go through all of the approval process. So, we are probably looking to be able to use UAVs under these regulations sometime in 2017.” Yet research continues: Spain's Institute For Sustainable Agriculture is conducting research on crops using quad-rotor UAVs taking images to discriminate between crops and weeds. The University of Central Florida developing a UAV to inspect plants in fields in conjunction with a ground robot. A quadcopter collecting less expensive lower resolution imagery identifies potential problems and sends the ground robot in for a more detailed inspection. The University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab is developing a concept where swarms of hummingbird-sized autonomous UAVs fly close to the ground to map the environment. In research conducted in California, a UAV flew between 26 rows of citrus trees and counted 479,395 fruits. France's anti-drone drone can spot malicious pilots in under a minute In response to the number of suspicious drones flying over Paris landmarks, French firm ECA Group has a solution: an anti-drone drone. It chases down rogue drones, triangulates the location of its pilot, moves in to photograph the offender, and notifies the police. ECA won't say how it works. The low-tech anti-drone technology at the Boston Marathon today involves net guns and text messages Massachusetts State Police declared Boston a no-fly zone for drones during the recent Boston Marathon. To help enforce the ban, officials utilized the DroneShield drone detection and warning system.

This week on Eating Matters, host Kim Kessler and guest co-host Talia Ralph are on the line with Anurag Varma, attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP who has been an instrumental part of what is considered the biggest discrimination case in agricultural history, Pigford v. Glickman. In the 1999 case Pigford v. Glickman, African-American farmers claimed the USDA had systematically discriminated against them on the basis of race, wrongfully denying them of farm loans and assistance. A successful case relating to discrimination against Native American farmers also followed, Keepseagle v. Vilsack. Although the Pigford case was settled, many farmers were unable to file claims before the deadline and numerous lawsuits were filed. Over a decade later in 2010, Congress approved $1.25 billion to pay claims and other expenses as part of the Settlement of Pigford II. Talking to Anurag about how the case came about and his experiences working for a positive outcome, Kim and Talia also get his take on the similar Keepseagle v. Vilsack case. Tune in for a great show! This program was brought to you by Edwards VA Ham.      ”Forty acres and a mule. The government broke that promise to African American farmers. Over one hundred years later, the USDA broke its promise to Mr. James Beverly. It promised him a loan to build farrowing houses so that he could breed hogs. Because he was African American, he never received that loan. He lost his farm because of the loan that never was. Nothing can completely undo the discrimination of the past or restore lost land or lost opportunities to Mr. Beverly or to all of the other African American farmers whose representatives came before this Court. Historical discrimination cannot be undone.” Opinion in Pigford v. Glickman, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “It’s been the greatest honor in my life to work on both of these cases.” [34:00] —Anurag Varma on Eating Matters

The Small UAV Coalition launches, law enforcement using drones, UAVs showcased, a spat over the MQ-9 Reaper, GNSS developments, and logbooks for UAV pilots. News Small UAV Coalition formed to promote civil and commercial use of small UAVs Eight companies have formally launched the Small UAV Coalition to facilitate the entry of small UAVs in the United States and abroad. The Coalition intends to advocate for commercial, consumer, recreational, and philanthropic use of UAVs by removing  “unnecessary policy or regulatory hurdles that impede small UAV development, sales, job creation, and services.” Founding members of the Small UAV Coalition are: 3DR, Aerialtronics, Airware, Amazon Prime Air, DJI Innovations, Google[x]'s Project Wing, GoPro, and Parrot. Attorneys at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP support the Coalition. North Dakota cops use a drone to nab three suspects in a cornfield When a car was pulled over by the Grand Forks, North Dakota police department for drunk driving, the occupants ran into a cornfield. The police brought out their AeroVironment Qube quadcopter and quickly found several of them hiding in the corn. Aeronautics unveils new Orbiter 3b UAV Aeronautics has unveiled the Orbiter 3b, offering more range and endurance than the previous model. The Orbiter Mini UAV System is designed for use in Military and Homeland Security missions such as over the hill reconnaissance, low intensity conflicts, and urban warfare operations, as well as close range ISR. It is catapult-launched from a vehicle, and recovery is by parachute and airbag. Air Force rebuts Defense Department report on planned Reaper buys The U.S. Defense Department Inspector General issued a report critical of the Air Force acquisition program for the MQ-9 Reaper. The Air Force wants to spend $76.8 billion to buy 401 Reapers, but the IG says Air Combat Command didn't obtain the proper approval or perform a verifiable analyses of number of Reapers to buy. The Air Force issued a statement on their website titled, Air Force rebuts report due to outdated data, saying the IG report “is based on data that is out of date.” UAVs at INTERGEO: Applanix, Others Announce GNSS-Guided Systems A special session at the InterGEO conference and exhibition in Berlin, Germany, “UAVs in Practice,” gave attendees an opportunity to see systems for aerial surveying and mapping, environmental monitoring, and other civil applications. Manufacturers at the show were mainly from Germany and other European countries. Applanix Corporation from Canada announced its new APX-15 UAV GNSS-Inertial System. This reduces Ground Control Points (GCPs) and sidelap. Germany-based Aibotix GmbH showed their Aibot-X6 V2, a six-rotor UAV with navigation by a GPS receiver integrated with gyroscope, accelerometer, barometer, magnetometers, and ultrasonic sensors. The Hirrus Mini UAV System from Teamnet International can carry CCD or IR video cameras, photo cameras, radiation detectors, and other sensors. Videos of the Week Incredible Close-Up Drone Video of an Erupting Volcano in Iceland Watch a brave drone get dramatically close to an erupting volcano Mentions 14 CFR 61.51 - Pilot logbooks - In the U.S., the FAA prescribes the Federal Aviation Regulations, or FARs, part of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). 14 CFR 61.51 describes the pilot logbook requirements for manned aircraft. They may provide some clues as to what to expect should the FAA ultimately require logbooks for unmanned aircraft. Going electronic with logbooks - This AOPA article describes some pilot logbook apps. The Best Electronic Pilot Logbook - Reviews by Pilotman Aviation & Pilots Network Pilot Pro Logbook - A cloud-based pilot logbook Pilots of America Forum - A forum thread about electronic logbooks Watch the Navy's New Unmanned Swarm Boats In Action Drones and the magical age of aviation