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Areas of Practice

  • Antitrust and Consumer Protection
  • Appeals
  • Blockchain and Digital Assets
  • Commodities and Derivatives Trading and ...
  • Commodities Trading and Regulation
  • Congressional Investigations
  • Crisis Management
  • First Amendment and Free Speech
  • Global Economic Development, Commerce, and ...
  • Government Relations
  • Litigation
  • State Attorneys General
  • State Government Relations
  • White Collar, Regulatory Defense and ...
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Roger’s practice focuses on government investigations and enforcement actions, internal investigations, complex consumer protection litigation, appeals, and state and federal regulatory issues. He regularly represents a wide range of energy, retail, media, manufacturing, technology, and trade association clients on legal and policy matters before state attorneys general and other state and federal regulators and enforcement agencies, including in responding to civil investigative demands and multi-state probes. Roger serves as co-head of the firm’s State Attorneys General practice.

Roger assists clients in developing productive working relationships with state attorneys general in an effort to avoid enforcement actions and litigation when possible and to convey industry-specific issues and concerns. Roger also counsels clients on developing and implementing legislative and regulatory strategies at the state and federal levels, as well as communications campaigns to support them.

Roger also defends clients in government investigations, as well as civil actions and criminal prosecutions brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and other state and federal agencies and self-regulatory organizations (SROs). He is well versed on the intricacies of navigating and overcoming government-requested, court-imposed receiverships and asset freezes. Roger regularly represents clients in challenging government rules, regulations, and orders under the Administrative Procedure Act, as well as in navigating First Amendment considerations.  He has extensive experience handing appeals before the US Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit and the US Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit.

Roger’s work for his clients is informed by years of representing the business community as a Senior Director of Legal Affairs at the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform. During his tenure at the US Chamber, Roger focused on issues including public nuisance, municipality litigation, arbitration, mass tort and class action litigation, and private rights of action. Roger regularly represented the US Chamber before state attorneys general.

Roger served as a law clerk to US Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and as a legal extern with the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice, specifically assisting prosecutors in the Fraud Section. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Roger practiced in the Washington, DC office of another Am Law 100 firm.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    JD, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, 2015

    BA, The University of Alabama, summa cum laude, 2012

    Areas of Practice

    • Antitrust and Consumer Protection
    • Appeals
    • Blockchain and Digital Assets
    • Commodities and Derivatives Trading and Regulation
    • Commodities Trading and Regulation
    • Congressional Investigations
    • Crisis Management
    • First Amendment and Free Speech
    • Global Economic Development, Commerce, and Government Relations Group
    • Government Relations
    • Litigation
    • State Attorneys General
    • State Government Relations
    • White Collar, Regulatory Defense and Investigations

    Professional Career



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