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Corporate Counsel

SEC 'AI Washing' Crackdown Yields Charges Against Founder of Recruiting Firm

"It is critical for investors to beware of companies exploiting the fanfare around artificial intelligence to raise funds," SEC enforcement division director Gurbir Grewal said.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In $1B Suit, Nikola Founder Says Legal Chief, Other Execs Fed DOJ False Narrative to Save Themselves

"Never has there been such an egregious case of corporate scapegoating at the expense of shareholders," former Executive Chair Trevor Milton alleges in the complaint.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Invitation Declined: Defenses Against Extradition to the United States

The arm of U.S. extradition law is long. Fortunately, practitioners have defenses at their disposal that they may raise in the requested country's courts to help either limit the scope of prosecution once extradition occurs, or to prevent it altogether.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Did He Ask You to Pay a Bribe': Menendez's Lawyer Cross-Examines Key Cooperating Witness

Menendez's attorney Adam Fee of Paul Hastings worked to demonstrate to the jurors that while Uribe was close to Menendez's wife, Nadine Menendez, he did not have extensive interactions with the senator.
4 minute read

Law.com

Second Circuit Holds No Special Standard for Charging Campaign Contributions As Bribes

If the case is not successfully appealed, we may have an opportunity to see whether the volume of campaign contribution bribery cases in the Second Circuit increases, and whether the government brings any cases that appear to infringe on the First Amendment interests of campaign contributors and candidates.
21 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Stephen Reynolds: A Full-Circle Career Back to Day Pitney

"Steve has never been afraid to step out of a comfortable role," recently retired The Hartford general counsel David Robinson said.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Former Allianz Global Investors Executive Pleads Guilty to Investment Adviser Fraud

Gregoire Tournant told Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York that he was involved in providing altered risk reports to investors between 2014 and 2020 and knew the investors would have wanted to know that the reports had been altered.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Seeing Advantages in Solo Practice, Big Law Partner Launches Firm for Compliance, Monitorship Matters

"Clients really want to just pick their lawyers more than they want to pick sometimes the law firm," noted Steve Solow, who left Big Law after more than 20 years.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Whoa, That Was Gross': Former NJ AG Gurbir Grewal Takes Stand at Menendez Trial

Gurbir Grewal, the former New Jersey attorney general who is now director of SEC enforcement, recalled outreach to him by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Autonomy CEO Acquitted on All Counts in HP Fraud Trial

A federal jury on Thursday found the British tech tycoon not guilty of 14 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.
7 minute read

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