Lobbying World

• Kevin Martin has joined Patton Boggs. The former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will join the firm’s telecommunications practice. Martin also worked a special assistant to President George W. Bush for economic policy and on the staff of the National Economic Council in the White House.

{mosads}• Gail Javitt has joined Sidley Austin as a counsel in the firm’s FDA regulatory practice at its Washington office. Prior to coming to the firm, Javitt spent seven years at the Genetics and Public Policy Center. She is a research scholar in the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
• Josh Protas has been hired by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs as its vice president and director of its Washington office. Protas comes to the Washington office after working as the senior vice president for planning and community affairs for the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.

• Steven Molo and Jeffrey Lamken have formed MoloLamken LLP. The new firm will be a litigation boutique focused on civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense and Supreme Court and appellate cases. Molo has left Shearman & Sterling in New York, where he was a partner. He was previously a partner with Winston & Strawn. Lamken was the head of the Supreme Court and appellate practice for Baker Botts and also served as an assistant to the solicitor general in the Justice Department.

• The Livingston Group has announced the creation of a new cybersecurity practice area. The new practice will involve several lobbyists at the firm. Team members consist of former Rep. Dennis Hertel (D-Mich.); Geoff Gleason, who served as an appropriations staffer for Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.); James Hensler, former staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee; and Adam Eisgrau, who was Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) chief judiciary counsel. Also working in the new area will Dr. Anthony “Tony” Tether and Dr. Arthur “Art” Bruckheim, who both worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.