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Standing Ovation for Mike Attanasio & Rusty Hardin
Mike Attanasio (Cooley LLP) and Rusty Hardin (Rusty Hardin and Associates) were the opening speakers at the NACDL White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson.And, of course, they were spectacular in their discussion of their successful representation of Roger Clemens. The timing of this event was appropriate as it came the day that the Baseball Writers'
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Decision by Tagliabue in NFL “Bounty” Cases May Be Instructive in Criminal Sentencing
by: Lawrence S. Goldman One of the many things that has bothered me about the criminal justice system is that there are no "grays." Everything is either criminal or non-criminal. Conduct that on one day is legally acceptable, even if perhaps sharp and unwholesome, on the next day will, if a penal statute goes into effect,
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New Scholarship – Conflict Minerals Legislation
One of the hot topics for corporate counsel is the conflict minerals legislation. Karen E.Woody of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP has a new article that was recently published in 81 Fordham Law Review (2012) titled "Conflict Minerals Legislation: The SEC's New Role as Diplomatic and Humanitarian Watchdog." SSRN describes it as: "Buried in the voluminous Dodd-Frank
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Mail Fraud – Part II By Hon. Jed Rakoff
The Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in United States v. Philips, a case that includes issues related to mail fraud, money laundering, forfeiture, and alleged government misconduct. The court reversed the district court decision to deny the government's forfeiture application, and affirmed other aspects of the case, including the money laundering conviction. All but one, that
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New Scholarship – Cloud Computing
James B. Baldinger & Charles P. Short of CarltonFields have a new article titled Uncertainty in the Cloud: Changing Requirements for Disclosing Customer Data. (esp)
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg, Rajaratnam Agrees to Pay $1.5 Million to Settle SEC Case DOJ Press Release, Victory Pharma Inc. of San Diego Pays $11.4 Million to Resolve Kickback Allegations in Connection with Promotion of Its Drugs DOJ Press Release, Illinois-based Hardware Distributor W.W. Grainger Pays US $70 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Mike
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New Scholarship – Prosecutors and Professional Regulation
Professor Bruce Green has a new article titled, Proscutors and Professional Regulation forthcoming at 25 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 873 (2012). The SSRN abstract states: Prosecutors often express mistrust of professional regulators, their rules and their processes. This may have been more understandable twenty years ago, when prosecutors perceived that the organized bar had
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New Scholarship – Corporate Prosecutions
Gabriel Markoff has a piece titled, Arthur Andersen and the Myth of the Corporate Death Penalty: Corporate Criminal Convictions in the Twenty-First Century that is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, April 2013 issue. The SSRN abstract states: The conventional wisdom states that prosecuting corporations can subject them to terrible collateral consequences
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Wiretaps
NPR's Ailsa Chang has a story, Wall Street Wiretaps: Investigators Use Insiders' Own Words To Convict Them. (esp)
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
500 Pearl Street, The Top White Collar Cases of 2012 Labaton Sucharow, SEC WhistleblowerAdvocate, SEC Sanctions Database A. Brian Albritton, False Claims Act & Qui Tam Law Blog, Wake Up Call for Those Asserting Broad Privilege Claims: U.S. ex rel Kalid-Kunz v. Halifax Hospital T. Markus Funk, Perkins Cole, Deconstructing the Executive Order Against Trafficking in Persons
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