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Connecticut Law Tribune

A Look Ahead: Cases That Will Make News This Year

2018 is expected to a busy year in both the courts and the state Legislature as issues like legalizing recreational marijuana to whether the state's education funding formula is fair to both students in suburban schools and their urban counterparts play out.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Olderman Steps Into Executive Director Position for Bronx Defenders

The veteran public defender most recently served as the organization's managing director.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Recent Developments in the Prosecution of Corporations

White-Collar Crime columnists Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack write: A program like the FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy or a deal like the Aegerion Pharmaceuticals C Plea, while in many ways of great benefit, only decrease incentives to challenge the government. For the foreseeable future, the present system, concentrating great power with prosecutors, is here to stay.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

Former Och-Ziff Executive Michael Cohen Charged in Charity Fraud Scheme

The former head of the hedge fund's European office allegedly induced an unnamed charity to invest in a fund without disclosing conflicts and self-dealing.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

'In re Ciarcia' and the Abuse of the Bankruptcy System

Carlos J. Cuevas discusses 'In re Ciarcia', in which Bankruptcy Judge James Tancredi employed Bankruptcy Code §1307(c) to dismiss a Chapter 13 case because of the lack of good faith.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Prison Sentence Upheld for Man Who Posted Custody Hearing Video to Facebook

A man criminally charged for recording a child custody hearing and posting it on Facebook cannot escape his 11-and-a-half-to-23-month prison sentence.
3 minute read

The Recorder

California Partners Killed in Law Firm Shooting

A workplace dispute between John Mendoza and Major Langer, name partners at what was once Perona, Langer, Beck, Serbin, Mendoza and Harrison, ended in an office holiday party shooting on Dec. 29 that claimed the lives of both lawyers.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge Puts the Brakes on FedEx Suit Over 'Highjacked' Account

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash dismissed a lawsuit claiming a man defrauded FedEx by accessing a corporate shipping account offering discounted rates, then charging third parties higher rates to ship items.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

First of 9 Rikers Island Jails Set to Close in Overhaul

Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City will close one of nine Rikers Island jails in the summer as part of a plan to shut down the complex.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. to Take Senior Status

U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. will take senior status July 1, but a committee reporting to Georgia's U.S. senators is already searching for his replacement.
3 minute read

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