The AG Line Letter

Dear colleagues, clients, and friends:

We are launching The AG Line to share in plain English what our team is seeing across State Attorneys General investigations and enforcement activity, as developments become public.

These matters often turn on a few early choices, how a company frames the facts, how it engages, and how quickly it gets aligned internally. The AG Line is meant to help teams spot those moments earlier.

The name is intentional. Much of this work is driven by the lawyers on the front lines inside AG offices, the line attorneys who build the record, test theories, and move matters forward day by day. We spend a lot of time with those teams, and it shapes how we think about strategy, pacing, and resolution.

Our approach is also intentional. Buchalter’s State Attorneys General Practice represents companies in complex investigations and enforcement actions brought by State Attorneys General across all 50 states, including multistate matters, single state inquiries, and parallel investigations involving state financial regulators and federal enforcement agencies. We help clients navigate the full life cycle of these matters, from initial civil investigative demands and subpoenas through negotiation, resolution, or litigation. Our work is pragmatic, business focused, and defense first, grounded in a deep understanding of how Attorneys General structure investigations, form coalitions, and prioritize enforcement targets.

The AG Line is informed by extensive experience representing companies in State AG matters nationwide. Our team has worked directly with State AG offices in virtually every U.S. jurisdiction and has served as lead defense counsel in some of the largest multistate actions in the country. That experience shapes how we assess developments and how we think about strategy and resolution.

Our posture is defense first and business focused. We are brought in to protect the company and to solve problems, not to inflame them. At the same time, effective defense often requires more than formal responses. When the situation calls for it, we also help clients advocate with government stakeholders through direct dialogue and problem solving, align strategy and messaging, and pursue durable solutions that protect operations, reputation, and long term goals. In some matters, that engagement includes constructive outreach to state leadership and other decision makers so that legal strategy and business reality are addressed together.

What we are doing with this blog

The goal is to make The AG Line useful for in house legal and compliance teams that want to stay ahead of the landscape without living in it every day. We will cover matters that are public, and we will focus on what they signal about priorities and enforcement theories that can travel across industries and across states.

In practice, that means:

1. Tracking what is happening. A clear description of the development and why it matters.
2. Focusing on what the state emphasized. The theories, remedies, and priorities that show up again and again.
3. Offering practical takeaways. The questions worth pressure testing internally before an inquiry arrives.

Why we are doing this

Investigations by State Attorneys General are complex, hybrid challenges – part legal, part regulatory, part reputational. They can move quickly, expand across states, and create operational friction long before anything becomes public. We created The AG Line because we see the same need across clients and colleagues: a credible, practitioner’s read on what is changing, and what to do with that information.

If there is a topic you would like us to cover, or if you are seeing a trend that deserves attention, we would like to hear from you. If you have a public enforcement development that belongs on our radar, please send it along, we welcome ideas. If there is someone on your team who should be receiving these posts, please feel free to share The AG Line internally.

Sincerely,

Mike Kilgarriff

BUCHALTER LLP
State Attorneys General Practice

Partner, Chair of Buchalter’s State Attorneys General Practice
Editor in Chief, The AG Line

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