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Chris represents clients in regulatory, civil, and criminal investigations and litigation. In his practice, Chris regularly employs his prior regulatory experience to benefit clients who are interacting with and being investigated by state attorneys general.

Fresh off the heels of an in-depth report detailing Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s leadership and consistent scrutiny of class action settlements, the Department of Justice and twelve state attorneys general, led by Arizona, independently filed objections to a proposed nationwide class action settlement between consumers and Dial. The class settlement focused on misleading advertisements

Consistent with state data breach notification laws, the Neiman Marcus Group, LLC publicly announced in January 2014 that its customers’ payment card information had potentially been compromised at 77 Neiman Marcus retail locations between March 2013 and January 2014. In total, 370,000 credit cards were compromised as a result of the intrusion, and at least

In March 2018, the Predatory Lending Unit of the Virginia Attorney General Office’s Complaint against online lender Future Income Payments (“FIP”) began with the words of Sir Walter Scott: “what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive.”[1] The lawsuit charged FIP with disguising unlawful loans – in excess of 183%