White collar defense lawyers can go a career without landing a favorable public settlement for a brand name client. Helen Cantwell of Debevoise & Plimpton landed two such settlements on back-to-back days last week.

Last Thursday, federal prosecutors in New York announced they’d entered a consent decree with Toyota of North America. The automaker agreed to pay $180 million to settle claims that it violated emissions reporting requirements under the Clean Air Act by failing to notify the Environmental Protection Agency about emissions control defects in its vehicles in a timely manner between 2005 and late 2015.

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