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The 2019 calendar year is shaping up to be a banner year for the suburban-D.C. boutique Consovoy McCarthy. Its lawyers have been tapped to defend President Donald Trump in matters involving the House Oversight Committee and to represent Trump attorney Jay Sekulow in response to a House Intelligence Committee probe. Since the start of April alone, a former named partner was confirmed to a federal appeals court and an of counsel left for a top job in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.