Alston & Bird Responds

Alston & Bird helped launch a new free credit builder loan company, Kikoff Lending. Founded by Cynthia Chen, Kikoff Lending was created with a social impact purpose and since it started operations in March, the company has helped almost two thousand consumers establish credit. The majority of Kikoff Lending’s borrowers

Lauren Timmons, Senior Associate, IP Trademark Group, Charlotte, Christina Wright, an Associate in the New York office in the Real Estate & Finance Group, and Thomas Walker, a Partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group in Charlotte, took on a compassionate release case representing a 77 year old man

On March 13, A&B obtained a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the U.S. Department of Agriculture from implementing a new regulation that would have terminated food stamp assistance for almost 700,000 low-income people across the country. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the new rule last December, and it was slated