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Corporate Counsel

FCPA Pilot Program: How Five Cases Were Resolved

Although the U.S. Justice Department's FCPA pilot program has publicly declined prosecution in five cases based on similar criteria, the outcomes were varied. Here at a glance are the results of the five cases resolved under the program so far.
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Corporate Counsel

DOJ's FCPA Pilot Program Wins Some White-Collar Praise, to a Point

Weighing the risks of self-reporting a bribery violation, or hiding it, has always been a thorny issue for companies. That's the dilemma at the heart of the U.S. Justice Department's pilot program for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Justice Department is mulling whether to continue the pilot program or to modify it. Most lawyers who have participated in the program said it should be continued, but with more clarity for companies.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

CFPB Faces 'Rock and a Hard Place' in Pushing Arbitration Rule

The question hanging over the CFPB's arbitration rule—a proposal that drew tens of thousands of comments from consumer and business advocates—is less now about the finer points of the final rule than about whether the regulations will ever see the light of day at all. For the agency, the threat of a congressional override is not abstract. Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate proposed bills to tear up the CFPB's prepaid card rule.
17 minute read

The Recorder

Amazon Snags Morrison's Katie Thomson for New Logistics Role

In 2014, as general counsel to the U.S. Transportation Department, Katie Thomson shared a piece of advice she often gives to young lawyers: "What you do in your life is important but who you work with is equally important." Less than a year after leaving the Obama administration to join Morrison & Foerster, where she was chairwoman of the firm's transportation group, Thomson is now moving on to a newly created position at Amazon.com Inc.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Why is Flying So Terrible? Blame These Antitrust Lawyers

You don't have to be beaten and dragged off a flight to conclude that flying coach is a miserable experience these days. Wondering who to blame? Here's a suggestion: antitrust lawyers--and yes, we're naming names. The ones who rammed through airline mergers--and the ones at DOJ who took the bait.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Congressmen Sizing Up Hopefuls for Eastern District US Attorney

There's no word from the White House as to who may be the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, but in recent weeks Republican congressmen from the New York metropolitan area have met with possible contenders.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Big Law Bench Runs Deep in $655M Terror Case at High Court

Thirteen years after suing the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority—and winning a $655 million jury award in 2015—the American victims and estates of victims of a series of bombings and shootings in Israel are asking the justices to overturn a federal appeals court decision that jettisoned them out of court.
29 minute read

National Law Journal

Guantanamo Defense Attorneys Sue Over Work Conditions

The attorneys, which include civilian and JAG lawyers, say they are forced to work in conditions that expose them to carcinogens while defending a client from the death penalty.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

For-Profit University Pays $32M to Settle Whistleblower Suit

When Atlanta attorney Joseph Wargo and partner David Pernini first filed a federal whistleblower case against a private, for-profit university with campuses in Atlanta's northern suburbs, they had no idea the litigation would last more than eight years.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Judge Cites Neil Gorsuch for a Judicial 'Renaissance'

Just days before Neil Gorsuch will plunge into the U.S. Supreme Court's menu of regulatory challenges, a Washington federal appeals judge on Tuesday turned to the newest justice to bolster her own concerns about the deference that courts give to agencies' interpretation of their rules.
8 minute read

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