State AG Pulse

The 2026 State AG Elections are done, and Cozen O’Connor’s expert team of Chuck Slemp, Lyndsay Ruotolo, and Chris Allen, joined by Special Guests Republican Attorneys General Association Executive Director Adam Piper and Democratic Attorneys General Association President Sean Rankin, are here with reactions and breakdowns of the 31 races (plus more).

In this bonus episode in Season 5, Chris Allen and Chuck Slemp consider the power of incumbency and other determining factors in next year’s bumper state AG election cycle.

In the final episode of Season 5, Keturah Taylor talks with Cozen O’Connor colleagues Danielle Sapega and Rick Van Buren about the complex regulatory environment for GLP-1 drugs—including increasing state AG scrutiny—and they outline a road map to help legitimate market participants avoid pitfalls.

In Episode 7 of Season 5 former VA Chief Deputy AG Chuck Slemp runs down the Democratic candidates in the upcoming VA Primary with Grace Garver and gives his prediction for who will win the race in November.

In Episode 6 of Season 5 Chris Allen and Emily Yu examine New York’s proposed FAIR Business Practices Act and what it tells us about how AGs’ consumer protection authority is evolving to address the challenges on the horizon.

In Episode 5 of Season 5 Chris Allen and Hannah Land analyze Texas AG Ken Paxton’s recent $1.4B settlement with Google over alleged use of embedded tracking software and what it tells us about AGs’ privacy and data security concerns.

In Episode 4 of Season 5 Jerry Kilgore sits down with Chuck Slemp, who recently joined Cozen O’Connor’s State AG Group, for a peek at the role and responsibilities of a Chief Deputy AG and to find out how his “insider knowledge” informs how he guides clients.

Episode 3 of Season 5 explores how companies that make products that impact consumers’ and especially kids’ health – from e-cigarettes at one end of the well-being spectrum to breakfast cereals at the other – attract close scrutiny from state AGs.

In Episode 2 of Season 5, as the new administration pursues actions that will fundamentally reshape US government, former Arkansas AG, now Cozen O’Connor State AG Group Co-Chair, Dustin McDaniel and team members Chris Allen and Grace Garver discuss how #stateAGs will step up and the tools they have to fill the #regulatory void.

DEI in the Federal and State Spotlight by Cozen O'Connor