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From: "Madison Law & Strategy Group, PLLC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:26:48 +0000

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   Greetings from Madison Law & Strategy Group and Madison Strategies.  We
   hope this finds your year going well.  We send these emails
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   New client expands Madison's policy, regulatory work
   We're pleased to announce that [6]United Minds, a major Swedish public
   relations firm, has joined Madison's client roster.  We are providing
   counsel, strategy, and relationships regarding U.S. policy and
   regulatory issues for United Minds and their clients.
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       6. http://www.unitedminds.se?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email

From Mike Signer, Managing Principal

   It's been an exciting year so far for Madison.  We secured a victory
   for our client [2]OPower, by working to improve the regulatory
   environment in the Commonwealth of Virginia for energy efficiency
   firms.  We continue to do advanced work on federal financial
   regulation, including the ongoing implementation of the Dodd-Frank
   bill.
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       2. http://opower.com?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email

   My recent writing on public affairs included a piece for the Richmond
   Times-Dispatch on [3]President Obama's proposed Defense budget and
   events throughout Virginia focused on education policy with the [4]New
   Dominion Project PAC, which I chair.  For me, however, the most
   important news was on the personal front -- I was married on March 31st
   to Ms. Emily Blout.  Our wedding was [5]featured in the New York Times.
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       3. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/oped/2012/feb/08/tdopin02-signer-defending-obama-on-defense-ar-1671477?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email
       4. http://newdominionproject.com?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email
       5. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/fashion/weddings/emily-blout-michael-signer-weddings.html?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email

   We also have great personnel developments with both Mark Vlasic and Jim
   Arkedis -- see to the right for more.

   Finally, we are expanding our general consulting offerings through our
   consulting arm, Madison Strategies, LLC.  Our combined experience
   includes many years in senior roles on presidential, state, and
   Congressional campaigns, and non-profit and for-profit issue and
   advocacy campaigns.  We are always happy to discuss any political or
   strategic needs you may have.

   Contact me at [email-masked].
   Vlasic now a Principal
   Mark Vlasic has become a Principal of Madison Law & Strategy Group,
   PLLC.  He leads Madison's international practice.  In addition to his
   international law, asset recovery, public policy, and business
   diplomacy/intelligence roles at Madison, and his teaching role at
   Georgetown University Law Center, he was recently elected to the Board
   of Directors of the White House Fellow Foundation & Association and the
   Fulbright Association in DC.  Ever active in World Bank and United
   Nations-related matters, he recently returned from a United Nations
   Alliance of Civilizations delegation to Morocco, Jordan and Saudi
   Arabi, where he met with senior government, civil society and education
   leaders.

   Mark has recently published pieces, among others, in the [7]New York
   Times regarding asset recovery, the [8]Washington Times
   regarding Charles Taylor, the [9]Huffington Post regarding Libya and
   asset recovery, [10]the Guardian regarding Cambodian justice, and the
   [11]Huffington Post regarding piracy. Most recently, his Georgetown
   Journal of International Law article on assassinations and targeted
   killing was listed as a [12]"must read" by the Council on Foreign
   Relations.
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       7. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/opinion/getting-back-the-bad-guys-loot.html?_r=1&ref=tunisia&utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email
       8. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/25/charles-taylor-verdict-end-to-impunity?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email
       9. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-v-vlasic/gaddafis-mansion-an-arab-_b_1392661.html?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email
       10. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/13/cambodia-khmer-rouge?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email
       11. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-v-vlasic/law-of-the-sea_b_1307497.html?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email
       12. http://www.cfr.org/counterterrorism/georgetown-journal-international-law-assassination-targeted-killing/p28105?utm_source=Madison+friends&utm_campaign=9fe3672c27-May+update&utm_medium=email

   Contact Mark at [email-masked].
   Arkedis joins as Senior Advisor
   Jim Arkedis is now Senior Advisor to Madison Strategies, LLC.  Jim is a
   strategic advisor who focuses on the intersection of policy, politics
   and media.  His experience includes working for a Washington, DC think
   tank, consulting on political campaign, counseling non-profit groups on
   strategic communication, and working in the intelligence community.

   In addition to his work with Madison, Jim is a senior fellow at the
   Progressive Policy Institute, where he also directs foreign policy and
   national security work.

   He's published and edited white papers on the defense budget, China's
   military, the US economy, and political messaging. His work has been
   published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
   The Atlantic Magazine, and Foreign Policy Magazine, and he's appeared
   on CNN, Fox News, and BBC.  He is a Fellow with the Truman National
   Security Project. Jim was an intelligence specialist with the Naval
   Criminal Investigative Service at the Department of Defense.

   Jim has written hundreds of detailed analyses of terrorist threats the
   United States Navy and Marine Corps and participated in offensive
   counter-terrorism operations and investigations in Europe and North
   Africa.

   Contact Jim at [email-masked].

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