Today's Top Stories
• Jury Finds Ex-Banker Guilty of Insider Trading
• Corrupt Politician's Pension Is Fair Game in Forfeiture Action, Says 2nd Circuit
• Shargel Stands by 'Carefully Thought Out' Strategy in Lost Trial of Pennsylvania AG
• Court Refuses to Seal Records of Allegedly-Looted Nonprofit
• Two Sentenced to Prison in Client-Steering Scheme
• New Trial Ordered in Wake of Prosecutor's 'Appeal to Sympathies'
• Court Declines to Discharge Debt Owed to Assault Victim
• Lindeen Decision: Attack on Blue Sky Preemption Fails
• Songwriter Collaboration and Co-Writer Agreements
• The Ever-Expanding 'Danielson' Rule?
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• Kane Found Guilty on All Charges
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In the first insider-trading case brought by Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to go to trial after 'U.S. v. Newman' raised the bar for prosecutors,... Read More »
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Weighing in on an open question in Albany following a flurry of political corruption cases, a federal appeals court held that politicians' pensions can be subjected... Read More »
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Winston & Strawn partner Gerald Shargel built his reputation representing the famous—and the infamous, including major figures in organized crime. In... Read More »
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Ruling in a lawsuit in which the cofounder of a nonprofit that seeks restitution for victims of terrorism alleged that two officers treated the organization... Read More »
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A criminal defense attorney and a paralegal who were convicted of bribing a New York City Criminal Justice Agency employee to steer potential clients to them... Read More »
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An ADA elicited testimony from the murdered man's mother that he was expecting a child, and commented that he would never see his family again. The prosecutor... Read More »
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A debt owed to an assault victim by the man who attacked him outside a Syracuse bar, leaving him with brain injuries, is nondischargeable under Title 11 of... Read More »
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In her Securities Regulation column, Roberta S. Karmel writes: SEC rulemaking in recent years frequently has been attacked by business interests on the right,... Read More »
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Wallace Collins discusses the myriad possible problems that may arise when a song's co-authors do not have a written agreement concerning their joint work,... Read More »
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In their Taxation column, David E. Kahen and Elliot Pisem of Roberts & Holland discuss a recent Eleventh Circuit decision involving a surprising application... Read More »
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The submission of a well-crafted brief prior to the mediation is an excellent opportunity to give the mediator a real preview of your position in advance. It can be used to educate, persuade, and create a roadmap for settlement negotiations. Read More » |
A deceased man's allegedly discriminatory reasons for disinheriting his child aren't enough to void the will, a New Jersey appeals court has said—and... Read More »
John Squires, a former chief intellectual property counsel at Goldman Sachs who went on to top roles at Chadbourne & Parke and Perkins Coie, decamped this week... Read More »
U.S. securities regulators on Tuesday punished another company for using severance agreements to restrict departing employees from pursuing whistleblower rewards,... Read More »
Federal regulators have barred the billionaire investor Steven Cohen from managing commodity hedge funds until 2018, in a settlement that comes on the heels... Read More »
Polish those resumes. We’ve matched the best places to live in the country with the largest Big Law offices in those markets. Read More »
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has been found guilty of all charges, including two felony counts of perjury. Read More »
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