B Colby Hamilton

June 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

It could be a worst-case scenario for any trial attorney: a key witness has gone sideways and threatens to blow up the case. In conversations with practitioners, the threat is one that even the best attorneys face. But they point to ways to try and mitigate that possibility and to keep things from going belly-up.

By B. Colby Hamilton

4 minute read

June 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A Monroe Town Court justice was arrested Wednesday for allegedly making false statements about her primary residence and falsifying records to obstruct a federal investigation into the matter.

By B. Colby Hamilton

3 minute read

June 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit took little time ruling in favor of defendant Morgan Stanley on Tuesday, in a case that sought to test the circuit's insider trading precedent.

By B. Colby Hamilton

22 minute read

June 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's high court has the chance to clarify damages in trade secret cases, thanks to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruling Monday.

By B. Colby Hamilton

4 minute read

June 02, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A investor with the convicted fraudster Bernard L. Madoff was turned back in his argument that the withdrawal and re-investment of $7 million shouldn't be subject to the clawback action being pursued by the Securities Investor Protection Act-appointed trustee Irving Picard in a partial summary judgment order handed down by Southern District Bankruptcy Judge Stuart M. Bernstein on Thursday.

By B. Colby Hamilton

2 minute read

May 30, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The case raises arcane issues of insider trading law—and involves a figure of interest in the investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

By B. Colby Hamilton

25 minute read

May 25, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

Be happy about the prospect of regulatory upheaval in Washington, D.C. Don't worry. That was the sentiment shared by former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Jo White and JPMorgan Chase & Co. vice chairman Stephen Cutler at a legal summit.

By B. Colby Hamilton

6 minute read

May 24, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The SEC says information from a former colleague about Medicare rate reductions was passed along to two hedge fund analysts who made millions off insider trading.

By B. Colby Hamilton

13 minute read

May 23, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A change in the occupant of the White House means a change in the portraits displayed across the country in federal agency offices. But four months into Donald Trump's presidency, there's just empty wall space in several New York law enforcement offices.

By B. Colby Hamilton

5 minute read

May 23, 2017 | New York Law Journal

ExxonMobil's claim that Texas law protecting accountant-client privileges should be able to block a subpoena by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office took another step back Tuesday when the First Department refused to quash Schneiderman's request for documents from PriceWaterhouseCooper.

By B. Colby Hamilton

4 minute read