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White Collar

  • September 15, 2025

    NJ AG Names New Leader Of Public Integrity Office

    New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced Monday that he has appointed a longtime prosecutor with a track record of handling high-profile corruption cases to lead the state Office of Public Integrity and Accountability.

  • September 15, 2025

    Ex-NFL Player Nabs Default Against Firms Tied To Adviser

    Retired NFL defensive lineman Mike Rucker and his wife won default judgment against several companies tied to their former financial adviser who is accused of mismanaging their money, after a state Business Court judge said the entities failed to respond to the Ruckers' suit alleging they enabled the adviser's fraud.

  • September 15, 2025

    Ga. Businessman Guilty In Fla. FCPA Bribery Trial

    A Florida federal jury on Monday found a Georgia businessman guilty of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by arranging to bribe Honduran government officials to secure contracts with the national police worth more than $10 million.

  • September 15, 2025

    Weil Adds 2 Acclaimed Trial Attys From Paul Hastings

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced on Monday that it has welcomed two prominent West Coast litigators from Paul Hastings LLP, highlighting their extensive experience in headline-grabbing cases.

  • September 15, 2025

    Ex-Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Sues DOJ Over Firing

    Maurene Comey, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who brought high-profile criminal cases against the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday alleging her abrupt July firing came "solely or substantially" because she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a Trump critic.

  • September 14, 2025

    Fed's Cook Defends Reinstatement As Trump Pushes For Stay

    Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook squared off with the Trump administration over the weekend as the D.C. Circuit mulls whether to keep in place a lower-court hold on President Donald Trump's effort to fire her ahead of a key interest-rate policy vote this coming week.

  • September 12, 2025

    Ex-Investor Relations Exec Gets 15 Months For Inside Trades

    A former managing director for LifeSci Advisors LLC was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for passing confidential information about several of the investor relations firm's clients to two friends who used it to make over $500,000 in illicit profits.

  • September 12, 2025

    SEC Seeks $160K From Ex-NFL Player For Insider Trading

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday that former NFL player Jack Brewer should pay $160,000 in disgorgement, civil penalties and interest as a remedy for illegal insider trading.

  • September 12, 2025

    Mich. AG's Loss Spells Trouble For Other Fake Elector Cases

    The dismissal of charges against Michigan Republicans who participated in the so-called fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election shows that establishing intent could be a hurdle for prosecutors as they pursue similar cases in other states, legal experts said.

  • September 12, 2025

    Exile's Wife Loses Appeal Over $6.9M Connecticut Mansion

    The wife of Chinese exile and convicted security fraud defendant Miles Guo lost her bid to shield a $6.9 million Greenwich mansion from her husband's creditors when a Connecticut federal judge ruled Friday that the property ultimately belongs to his Chapter 11 estate. 

  • September 12, 2025

    Trader Sentenced For $1M Fraud Targeting Pro Athletes

    A Colorado investor accused of stealing more than $1 million from clients, including some professional athletes, was sentenced to 37 months in prison at a hearing Friday, after a Colorado federal judge appeared unmoved by the trader's mitigation attempts.

  • September 12, 2025

    SEC Employee Traded Prohibited Crypto Stock, IG Says

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's internal watchdog said on Friday that an agency employee earned more than $200,000 trading a cryptocurrency-related stock that he was prohibited from holding.

  • September 12, 2025

    McGinn Smith Cos. To Pay $44M To End Obama-Era SEC Suit

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's long-running litigation over the McGinn Smith Ponzi scheme has wrapped up after a federal judge entered a $44.2 million judgment against entities accused of running a $125 million fraud that went bust in 2010.

  • September 12, 2025

    Family Of Businessman Must Face $80M Tax Scheme Claims

    A theater businessman's descendants and extended family cannot avoid claims by the U.S. accusing them of knowingly engaging in an $80 million tax shelter scheme to sell their shares of the family holding company, a New York federal judge ruled, declining to toss the suit.

  • September 12, 2025

    Boston Activist Eyes Plea In Charity Fraud Case

    A prominent Boston anti-violence activist asked a federal judge on Friday to schedule a change of plea hearing in a case alleging she misused donations to a nonprofit and pandemic assistance funds for housing, travel, dining and other personal expenses.

  • September 12, 2025

    Broker Wants DC Circ. View Of FINRA Constitutionality Claim

    A broker-dealer representative has asked the D.C. Circuit to review a lower court's refusal to block an enforcement action against him from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority despite his claims that the pending in-house hearing is unconstitutional under the U.S. Supreme Court's Jarkesy decision.

  • September 12, 2025

    Chinese Co. CEO, Adviser Charged In $100M Pump-And-Dump

    An executive for a publicly traded Chinese technology company and a financial adviser were indicted Wednesday for allegedly running a complex pump-and-dump scheme that bilked more than $110 million from unwitting investors, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

  • September 12, 2025

    2nd Circ. OKs Verdict In DEA Bribe Case But Nixes Forfeiture

    The Second Circuit on Friday affirmed the convictions of a pair of ex-Drug Enforcement Administration agents over a bribery scheme but overturned an order requiring both to forfeit funds, saying it would constitute a double payment for the same crime.

  • September 12, 2025

    Ex-US Attorney Expands Taft's Litigation Team In Cincinnati

    Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has strengthened its Cincinnati roster with the recent addition of a litigator who spent more than 25 years with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio.

  • September 12, 2025

    LA Lawyer Disbarred For Overcharging Inmate Clients

    The Golden State's Supreme Court has disbarred a Los Angeles attorney who repeatedly collected "unconscionable legal fees" after misleading inmate clients about their chances for resentencing, the State Bar of California has announced.

  • September 12, 2025

    Another Investor Settles In $2.1B Danish Tax Fraud Case

    A U.S. investor and two of his alleged pension plans have settled claims by Denmark's tax agency accusing them of participating in a $2.1 billion scheme that fraudulently claimed refunds on tax withheld from stock dividends, with a New York federal court dismissing the allegations.

  • September 12, 2025

    27-Year Labor Department Lawyer Makes Littler His First Firm

    An attorney who has spent his entire career working in public service and who most recently completed more than 27 years with the U.S. Department of Labor's office focused on workplace safety has joined Littler Mendelson PC in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Wednesday.

  • September 12, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen former Master Chef presenter Gregg Wallace sue the BBC, Elon Musk's xAI take legal action against a staff engineer, and fashion mogul Kevin-Gerald Stanford file a fresh claim against Lion Capital-owned Klotho and EY amid a long-running All Saints share acquisition dispute.

  • September 11, 2025

    Ex-Two Sigma Quant Rigged Models For $23M Profit, Feds Say

    A former Two Sigma Investments quantitative analyst was hit Thursday with criminal charges and a civil enforcement action for allegedly manipulating the hedge fund's algorithmic models used to forecast securities performance in order to snag a $23 million payday while causing $165 million in harm to clients.

  • September 11, 2025

    Trump's CFTC Nominee Publicly Feuds With Winklevoss Twins

    Brian Quintenz is accusing crypto exchange founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss of pressuring President Donald Trump to delay his nomination to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, saying in a social media post that the identical 44-year-old twins were apparently unhappy that he refused to make promises about a complaint they've lodged against agency attorneys.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute

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    The new dark comedy film “Oh, Hi!” — depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping — should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility

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    Banking regulators' update to the customer identification process, allowing banks to collect some information from third parties rather than directly from customers, helps modernize anti-money laundering compliance and carries advantages for financial institutions that embrace the new approach, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.

  • Opinion

    Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery

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    Claims that Paramount’s decision to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump while it was undergoing a premerger regulatory review amounts to a quid pro quo misconstrue bribery law and ignore how modern legal departments operate, says Ediberto Román at the Florida International University College of Law.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

  • Grappling With Workforce-Related Immigration Enforcement

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    To withstand the tightening of workforce-related immigration rules and the enforcement uptick we are seeing in the U.S. and elsewhere, companies must strike a balance between responding quickly to regulatory changes, and developing proactive strategies that minimize risk, say attorneys at Fragomen.

  • DOJ-HHS Collab Crystallizes Focus On Health Enforcement

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    The recently announced partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to combat False Claims Act violations, following a multiyear trend of high-dollar DOJ recoveries, signals a long-term enforcement horizon with major implications for healthcare entities and whistleblowers, say attorneys at RJO.

  • What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking

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    As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • How Courts Are Addressing The Use Of AI In Discovery

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    In recent months, several courts have issued opinions on handling discovery issues involving artificial intelligence, which collectively offer useful insights on integrating AI into discovery and protecting work product in connection with AI prompts and outputs, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.

  • Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch

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    With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.

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    In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year

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    In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.

  • How Cos. In China Can Tailor Compliance Amid FCPA Shifts

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement guidelines create a fluid business environment for companies operating in China that will require a customized compliance approach to navigate both countries’ corporate and legal systems, say attorneys at Dickinson Wright.

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