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Corporate Counsel

Fintech Startup's First-Ever GC Shares Keys to Working Remotely

"We're there to be able to answer problems and issues—and you can't readily do that, and you can't really be sort of a guide dog and a good sniffer unless you're communicating with people," said Qolo GC Steve Zelinger.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Tangled Personal Life of Government's Star Witness Under Microscope During Cross-Examination in Fraud Trial of Ex-Banker

Cross-examination focuses on multiple incidents of bigamy and hidden extramarital affairs.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Fried Frank Takes 20-Lawyer Financial Services Team From Cadwalader in NY, DC

Firm chair David Greenwald said the group is bringing along a client list of big sell-side financial institutions.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Is 'Snobbery' Causing Banks to Overpay Outside Counsel?

"It's pretty hard to criticize them for paying the highest rates when they're kicking butt, basically," said Nathan Cemenska, director of legal operations and industry insights at Wolters Kluwer.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Court Says Attorney Argued Wrong Type of Fraud

The Third District Court of Appeal ruled that the respondent "doesn't get a late do-over" because she incorrectly filed a new action alleging extrinsic fraud, rather than having pled intrinsic fraud in the underlying foreclosure action.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

TD Bank Suit Sizes Up Overdraft Fees

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the document here.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Meet DOJ's New Top Cryptocurrency Cop

Eun Young Choi, the new head of the Justice Department's cryptocurrency enforcement team, was at the vanguard of cybercrime prosecutions.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Covered Bonds: An Attractive Financing Tool for US Banks

It may be time for the U.S. Congress to revisit adopting covered bond legislation in the United States since covered bonds would be a nice additional financing source for U.S. banks particularly smaller or regional banks that do not have the same access to the securitization market that the larger U.S. banks have.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowing: Whistleblower Case Addresses New York Transfer Tax Issues

Joint Venture transactions involving entities owning real property in New York can sometimes raise complicated New York State and City real property transfer tax questions. In their Real Estate Financing column, Ezra Dyckman and Charles Nelson discuss the recent case, State ex rel. Saric v. GFI Breslin, which illustrates many of the issues that can arise.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Skadden Tapped in Class Action Over United Airlines Credit Cards

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the document here.
1 minute read

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