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June 03, 2002 | New York Law Journal

White-Collar Crime

T wenty-five years after its initial passage, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) 1 remains a viable deterrent to international bribery by United States companies.
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January 21, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Immigration Law

Michael D. Patrick, a partner at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, writes that, for the majority of employment-based green card applications, the employer must first obtain certification from the Department of Labor that qualified U.S. workers are not available for the employment offered to the alien. In recent years, however, the system has been crippled by processing delays that have impeded the ability of U.S. employers to meet their workforce needs.
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January 25, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Panel Finds Light Sentence For Tax Fraud Unreasonable

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February 11, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Newsbriefs

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March 29, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Updated Consolidated Supervision Framework for Large Institutions

In his Banking column, Michael T. Escue, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, writes that in December 2012, the Federal Reserve published a new framework for consolidated supervision of large financial institutions, which are generally U.S. bank and savings and loan holding companies with assets of $50 billion or more and foreign banking organizations with assets of U.S. operations of $50 billion or more.
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March 20, 2013 | Law.com

Former Judge Probed For Long-Ago Action Seeks Ouster Reversal

A former judge's "life well led" justifies reversing the determination by the Commission on Judicial Conduct that he should be removed from office for having had sexual contact with his 5-year-old niece once in 1972 - when he was 25 and before he passed the bar - his attorney argued yesterday before the state Court of Appeals.
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March 14, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Jurisdiction, Due Process and No-Fault Divorce

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March 25, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Trial Practice

Robert S. Kelner, senior partner at Kelner and Kelner, and Gail S. Kelner, an attorney with the firm, write that although the courts permit attorneys wide latitude to determine the content of their summations, it is not a blank check. In an effort to paint the appropriate picture, counsel must be extraordinarily careful not to cross certain lines which could result in reversal of a favorable verdict.
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May 28, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Newsbriefs

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January 07, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Law Firms Raise $800,000 So Far to Aid South Asians

New York lawyers are making sizable contributions to the worldwide tsunami disaster relief effort.
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