{"id":166932,"date":"2026-11-06T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/06\/subpoenas-are-coming-washington-law-firms-are-getting-ready-for-a-congressional-probe-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:26:04","slug":"subpoenas-are-coming-washington-law-firms-are-getting-ready-for-a-congressional-probe-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/06\/subpoenas-are-coming-washington-law-firms-are-getting-ready-for-a-congressional-probe-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Subpoenas Are Coming: Washington Law Firms Are Getting Ready For A Congressional Probe Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Congressional investigations will be the busiest area of law in Washington over the next two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/b><\/em>Brian Nieves<\/a>, a partner at Holtzman Vogel and former deputy counsel to the House Oversight Committee, in comments to Reuters<\/a>. Democrats\u2019 victories in both chambers mean they\u2019ll take control of Congress, and gain subpoena power, in January. They\u2019ve already signaled plans to investigate the Trump administration, its allies, and companies that did business with them. \u201cBottom line, there will be more investigators and more investigations,\u201d said Mark Epley<\/a>, who co-leads Arnold & Porter\u2019s congressional investigations practice. Cooley\u2019s Susanne Sachsman Grooms<\/a> warned the volume of probes could double. Among the potential targets: nine major law firms that collectively agreed to provide Trump $940 million in free legal services<\/a>. House Oversight\u2019s incoming Democratic chair, Rep. Robert Garcia<\/a>, has already offered a succinct preview: \u201cLawyer up.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The post Subpoenas Are Coming: Washington Law Firms Are Getting Ready For A Congressional Probe Boom<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Congressional investigations will be the busiest area of law in Washington over the next two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/b><\/em>Brian Nieves<\/a>, a partner at Holtzman Vogel and former deputy counsel to the House Oversight Committee, in comments to Reuters<\/a>. Democrats\u2019 victories in both chambers mean they\u2019ll take control of Congress, and gain subpoena power, in January. They\u2019ve already signaled plans to investigate the Trump administration, its allies, and companies that did business with them. \u201cBottom line, there will be more investigators and more investigations,\u201d said Mark Epley<\/a>, who co-leads Arnold & Porter\u2019s congressional investigations practice. Cooley\u2019s Susanne Sachsman Grooms<\/a> warned the volume of probes could double. Among the potential targets: nine major law firms that collectively agreed to provide Trump $940 million in free legal services<\/a>. House Oversight\u2019s incoming Democratic chair, Rep. Robert Garcia<\/a>, has already offered a succinct preview: \u201cLawyer up.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Congressional investigations will be the busiest area of law in Washington over the next two years. \u2014 Brian Nieves, a partner at Holtzman Vogel and former deputy counsel to the House Oversight Committee, in comments to Reuters. Democrats\u2019 victories in both chambers mean they\u2019ll take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}