Eric Lewis

March 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The United States needs to consider carefully whether its treaty advantages and broad jurisdictional statutes should be aggressively used to bring foreign defendants to the United States when the American interest is limited and when other countries may have a greater interest in applying their own statutes, and their own penalty structures.

By Eric Lewis

8 minute read

August 13, 2020 | New York Law Journal

A discussion of 'Liu v. SEC,' where the Supreme Court clarified the scope of the disgorgement remedy, and limited the SEC's discretion in making restitution to victims of securities fraud.

By Eric Lewis

6 minute read

July 24, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Until the 2020 election cycle—when the President's strategy seems to be to create a phony panic about violent crime—the federal death penalty did not seem to be a high priority. Suddenly, it is an emergency.

By Eric Lewis

5 minute read

May 20, 2020 | Litigation Daily

'Looking forward from this improbable ninth week of shutdown, I believe that litigation is about to enter another sea change,' writes Eric Lewis, a senior partner at litigation boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss.

By Eric Lewis

7 minute read

April 30, 2020 | New York Law Journal

"I think this experience has made us better managers; of course, the secret of law firms is that lawyers are generally good at being lawyers, but lousy at being managers."

By Eric Lewis

5 minute read

February 03, 2020 | New York Law Journal

This article sets out the basic process for obtaining extradition to the United States and reviews certain recent cases that suggest that the United States is trying to leverage its political power to bring defendants to the United States either to fulfill political agendas or where the United States' interest is tangential at best in view of the demonstrable interest of other countries.

By Eric Lewis

8 minute read

December 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Eric Lewis focuses on three key areas: (1) the widening of the net from sanctioned individuals to their families; (2) the application of the evasion provisions to foreign persons; (3) the bringing of new classes within existing sanctions.

By Eric Lewis

11 minute read

May 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Eric Lewis of Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss writes: Good lawyers don't get stuck in boxes. They are problem solvers who bring judgment and experience to their clients' issues, whoever those clients may be. They try to prevent economic interests from affecting their service to clients. They earn trust. Satisfaction in the law can be, and should be, measured in more than one way.

By Eric Lewis

14 minute read

December 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

With banking behemoths from New York to Hong Kong teetering in an ocean of red ink, banks in Lebanon are enjoying a record year. Unlike financial systems in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Lebanon had a banking regulator who understood that his first job was to minimize the risk of financial disaster.

By Eric Lewis

7 minute read