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National Law Journal

NLRB Takes on Tesla, Cordray Mum About Plans: Roundup

Our latest weekly roundup of big news on the regulatory and compliance front, featuring: NLRB takes on Tesla for alleged unfair labor practices. Prosecutors open an early inquiry into whether Uber violated foreign-bribery laws. Richard Cordray, the CFPB director, isn't opening up about any plans to leave the agency before his term expires in July. Home Depot's big settlement with product-safety regulators portends changes at the agency, and lawyers for Google this week told EU regulators how the company will comply with an order requiring it to stop giving improper preference.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Remote Employee in NJ Charged With Stealing $243,000 From Apple

A grand jury in New Jersey has indicted a former Apple employee on charges that she embezzled $243,000 while working remotely for the California-based tech giant.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

'U.S. v. Martoma': The End of the 'Newman' Personal Benefit Test

Antonia M. Apps analyzes the Second Circuit's decision in 'U.S. v. Martoma', where the court held that the gloss of a "meaningfully close personal relationship" as part of the personal benefit test was "no longer good law," and that liability requires the government to prove that the tipper expected the tippee would trade on the information and the tip "resembled trading by the insider followed by a gift of the profits" to the tippee.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

USA v. American International Group, Inc.

FCA Qui Tam Suit Alleging Firm's 'Infiltration' By Mafia Dismissed as Frivolous, Baseless
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Top Banks Still Paying Billions in Misconduct Costs, Report Says

Nearly a decade after the financial crisis, costs related to conduct still continue to cost banks big time.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

LA Hire Marks King & Spalding's Latest Litigation Addition

King & Spalding has hired white-collar litigation partner Brian Michael in Los Angeles, where he was deputy general counsel at 21st Century Fox and group chief compliance officer at the Fox Networks Group. Michael comes to King & Spalding a week after the firm opened an office in Chicago by adding another ex-federal prosecutor.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Citing 'Salman,' Second Circuit Finds Its Own Insider Trading Ruling Not 'Good Law'

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found Wednesday that its own prior interpretation of insider trading precedent was "no longer good law" after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year in 'U.S. v. Salman'.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

It Takes Two to Conspire … But Don't Tell the AUSAs Prosecuting Martin Shkreli's Lawyer

Lawyers from Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher are mounting a full-throated defense of Evan Greebel, a former corporate partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman and Kaye Scholer who faces criminal charges in connection with his work for “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.
22 minute read

New York Law Journal

SEC Settles Insider Trading Case With Deerfield for $4.16M

The firm at the heart of federal allegations of insider trading on government information on changing Medicare rates has agreed to a $4.6 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Shkreli's Ex-Lawyer Faces 'Kafkaesque' Trial, Defense Attorneys Say

Indicted corporate lawyer Evan Greebel said it "shocks the conscience" that prosecutors haven't dropped a wire fraud conspiracy charge against him in light of the acquittal of his co-defendant, Martin Shkreli, on the same count. Greebel once worked at Katten Muchin Rosenman and Kaye Scholer.
4 minute read

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