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  • April 24, 2025

    Ex-Biscayne CEO Gets 10 Years For $130M Ponzi Scheme

    The co-founder and CEO of defunct investment advisory firm Biscayne Capital on Thursday was sentenced in New York federal court to 10 years in prison, over his admitted role in a $130 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded banks and investors in a purported luxury real estate fund.

  • April 24, 2025

    21 Democratic AGs Back Susman Godfrey In Trump EO Fight

    Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general filed a brief Thursday supporting Susman Godfrey LLP's fight against President Donald Trump's executive order revoking its access to government resources, saying it threatens lawyers' freedom to represent clients disfavored by the government, such as when John Adams defended British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre.

  • April 24, 2025

    Long Island Man Gets 18 Years For Father-Son Crypto Scam

    A Long Island man convicted of cheating investors out of millions of dollars by falsely promising to serve as a broker for crypto sales while pocketing the funds was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday.

  • April 24, 2025

    FINRA Says 5th Amendment Doesn't Apply In Adviser's Case

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has urged a Washington, D.C., federal court to toss a financial adviser's Fifth Amendment challenge against the self-regulating watchdog of brokers, arguing it is not subject to constitutional requirements when carrying out its self-regulatory responsibilities.

  • April 24, 2025

    GE Investors' $362.5M Deal Gets Final OK, Attys Get $70M

    A New York federal judge on Thursday gave final approval to a $362.5 million deal and awarded attorneys from Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and Grant & Eisenhofer PA nearly $70 million in attorney fees for their work in a class action that accused General Electric Co. of fraudulently concealing cash flow problems.

  • April 24, 2025

    Ex-OneTaste Execs Ask Justices To Nix 'Stolen' Docs

    Former OneTaste executives facing forced-labor conspiracy charges asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to bar allegedly stolen and attorney-client privileged documents from being used at a May trial, saying corporate legal communications are broadly at risk.

  • April 24, 2025

    Lawmakers Seek Answers From Law Firms Over Trump Deals

    Democratic congressional members on Thursday demanded that Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins and seven other BigLaw firms provide more details on multimillion-dollar deals they've recently cut with the Trump administration, urging the firms to void their agreements while arguing they may violate numerous anti-bribery and legal ethics statutes.

  • April 24, 2025

    Ex-Bank GC Gets 4-Year Sentence In $7.4M Fraud Scheme

    A former Webster Bank general counsel and corporate secretary was sentenced Thursday to four years behind bars after pleading guilty to spending nearly eight years embezzling $7.4 million and funneling at least some of the money through his personal attorney trust accounts.

  • April 24, 2025

    Ready Capital Sued Again Over Real Estate Loan Losses

    Ready Capital Corp. and two executives were hit with another derivatives suit alleging statements made in the back half of 2024 about the company's performance misled investors about the significance of several nonperforming commercial real estate loans.

  • April 24, 2025

    Pardon Me? Why Offers To Secure Clemency Might Be A Scam

    Some white collar lawyers and consultants say their clients are increasingly being solicited by potential scammers with promises to leverage supposed White House connections to secure pardons and other forms of clemency in exchange for big fees.

  • April 24, 2025

    NY AG Says Housing Fraud Claim Is 'Retribution' By Trump

    New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday pushed back on claims by a federal housing official that she committed mortgage fraud, with her counsel branding it "the latest act of improper political retribution" directed by President Donald Trump after James' office secured a nearly half-billion dollar civil fraud judgment against him.

  • April 24, 2025

    NY IP Lawyer Failed To Pay PPP Loans, Philly Bank Says

    A Syracuse, New York, patent lawyer who maintains a whimsical, rainbow-filled website has been sued by a Philadelphia-based bank for allegedly not paying back a nearly $15,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan he received through the bank.

  • April 24, 2025

    Sidley Brings On 14-Atty Cadwalader Real Estate Team

    Sidley Austin LLP announced Thursday that it has hired 14 lawyers from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP for its real estate practice.

  • April 24, 2025

    JPMorgan, Retiree Resolve Benefits Freeze Suit

    A former JPMorgan worker dropped a Second Circuit bid to revive his lawsuit claiming the financial giant failed to properly disclose how changes to an employee pension plan could result in a freeze on participants' benefits.

  • April 24, 2025

    Firm Fights IRS' $33M Boost To Self-Employment Income

    The Internal Revenue Service wrongly subjected nearly $33 million of a New York investment firm's income to self-employment taxes by disqualifying the firm's limited partners and taxing their distributions, it alleged in two U.S. Tax Court petitions.

  • April 24, 2025

    Red Sox TV Network Wins Civil Judgment In Fraud Suit

    The regional cable channel that broadcasts Boston Red Sox and Bruins games has obtained a civil judgment against a former executive who was convicted of embezzling nearly $600,000 through a billing fraud scheme.

  • April 23, 2025

    Feds Seek At Least 6½ Years For Mango Markets Trader

    A cryptocurrency trader convicted on claims he took $110 million out of shuttered decentralized finance platform Mango Markets should spend at least six and a half years in prison, federal prosecutors have argued, while the DeFi protocol itself asked that he pay $47 million in restitution.

  • April 23, 2025

    NY, 11 Other States Sue Trump Administration To Block Tariffs

    A dozen states are seeking to block tariffs the Trump administration imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, claiming in a lawsuit Wednesday the tariffs illegally constitute unprecedented tax hikes on Americans and violate constitutional separations of powers

  • April 23, 2025

    Retirement Co. Hit With $38.8M Jury Verdict In ERISA Action

    A New York federal jury Wednesday awarded a 27,000-member class of retirement plan participants nearly $38.8 million after finding that Pentegra Retirement Services violated federal benefits law by saddling a $2.1 billion 401(k) plan with excessive administrative fees.

  • April 23, 2025

    Ex-Sprinter Turned Track Coach Cops To Olympic Doping Rap

    A onetime world-class sprinter from Georgia on Wednesday admitted to illegally providing banned performance-enhancement drugs while training athletes to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

  • April 23, 2025

    MediaTek Gets PTAB To Review Microchip Patent

    Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek has persuaded judges on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to take up its challenge of a microchip patent issued to engineers at Intel and that is now being asserted by a patent-holding company in an infringement lawsuit in Marshall, Texas.

  • April 23, 2025

    'Minute Entry' Isn't A Real Judicial Order, 2nd Circ. Told

    A Second Circuit panel on Wednesday seemed skeptical of a plastic resin producer's claim that a Connecticut federal district judge's oral ruling and follow-up minute entry weren't formal orders triggering a deadline to appeal several contract dispute losses totaling $1.7 million.

  • April 23, 2025

    Citi Gets NY AG's Suit Paused For 2nd Circ. Review

    Citibank can appeal a ruling in a lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general over the bank's response to incidents of online wire transfer fraud, with a federal judge saying that while he does not think the bank will prevail on appeal, its arguments "merit serious consideration."

  • April 23, 2025

    Crypto Co. Drops Suit Against K&L Gates, For Now

    A bitcoin mining company has dropped its lawsuit against its former counsel K&L Gates LLP, ending for now its claims that the firm overbilled it and missed a key deadline in a separate bankruptcy action.

  • April 23, 2025

    Colgate Faces New Suit Over Lead In Children's Toothpaste

    Colgate-Palmolive Co. was hit with another class action accusing it of allowing their children's toothpaste to become tainted with heavy metals, according to a complaint filed in New York federal court.

Expert Analysis

  • Notable 2024 Trademark Cases And What To Watch In 2025

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    Emerging disputes between established tech giants and smaller trademark holders promise to test the boundaries of trademark protection in 2025, following a 2024 marked with disputes in areas ranging from cybersquatting to geographic marks, says Danner Kline at Bradley Arant.

  • 'Minimal Participant' Bar Is Tough To Clear For Whistleblowers

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    Under the U.S. Department of Justice’s corporate whistleblower pilot program, would-be whistleblowers will find it tough to show that they only minimally participated in criminal misconduct while still providing material information, but sentencing precedent shows how they might prove their eligibility for an award, say attorneys at MoloLamken.

  • What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025

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    The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.

  • 5 Notable Anti-Money Laundering Actions From 2024

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    Regulators' renewed interest in anti-money laundering programs in 2024 led to numerous enforcement actions and individual prosecutions in industries like banking, cryptocurrency and gaming, including the blockbuster TD Bank settlement and investigations of casinos in Nevada, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.

  • Wage Whiplash: Surviving A Compliance Roller Coaster

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    As the transition to the Trump administration causes mounting uncertainty about federal wage and hour policies, employers can transform compliance challenges into opportunities for resilience and growth by taking key steps to comply with stricter state and local requirements, says Lee Jacobs at Barclay Damon.

  • Series

    Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.

  • Marketing Messages Matter In State AG Consumer Protection

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    Attorneys general interpret marketing claims far more broadly than many companies may realize, so to mitigate potential risk, businesses should be vigilant about all consumer messaging, including communications that may not traditionally be considered advertising in the colloquial sense, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • 7th Circ. Ruling Muddies Split On Trade Secret Damages

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    The Seventh Circuit's recent endorsement in Motorola v. Hytera of a Second Circuit limit on avoided-cost damages under the Defend Trade Secrets Act contradicts even its own precedents, and will further confuse the scope of a developing circuit conflict that the U.S. Supreme Court has already twice declined to resolve, says Jordan Rice at MoloLamken.

  • Opinion

    6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School

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    Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.

  • Implications Of NY Climate Case For Generating Facilities

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    Regardless of how Greenidge Generation LLC v. New York Department of Environmental Conservation develops on remand, this decision has immediate repercussions for generating facilities seeking permit applications and renewals in New York, likely involving Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act considerations, say attorneys at Hodgson Russ.

  • Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware

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    Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • AV Compliance Is Still A State-By-State Slog — For Now

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    While the incoming Trump administration has hinted at new federal regulations governing autonomous vehicles, for now, AV manufacturers must take a state-by-state approach to compliance with safety requirements — paying particular attention to states that require express authorization for AV operation, say attorneys at Frost Brown.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

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    In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Why State Captive Audience Laws Matter After NLRB Decision

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    As employers focus on complying with the National Labor Relations Board's new position that captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, they should also be careful not to overlook state captive audience laws that prohibit additional types of company meetings and communications, says Karla Grossenbacher at Seyfarth.

  • A Closer Look At SDNY Bankruptcy Rule Amendments

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    The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York’s recent amendments to its local rules aim to streamline key Chapter 11 processes, resolve misunderstandings about previous iterations of the rules and urge caution about the use of artificial intelligence, say attorneys at Skadden.

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