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Eversheds and Winston among advisers as trio of ex-Barclays lawyers avoid SFO charges in Qatar case

Former Barclays GC among senior lawyers taking advice on Qatar capital raising probe
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Latham Makes Another Key Litigation Hire in Leslie Caldwell

Leslie Caldwell has become the latest former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division to join Latham & Watkins. The firm announced Wednesday that Caldwell will join its white-collar defense and investigations practice in September. The former partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius will work out of San Francisco.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lawsuit Against GE Capital Over Petters Ponzi Scheme Heads to Trial

A case spawned by the nearly $4 billion Tom Petters Ponzi scheme is gearing up for a bankruptcy court trial in West Palm Beach.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Britain Files Criminal Fraud Charges as US Regulators Probe Barclays

British authorities have criminally charged Barclays and four of its former executives with conspiracy to commit fraud, while the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigate the bank.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Chuck Cooper Confirms: He's AG Jeff Sessions' Lawyer

Cooper didn't provide additional details on the nature of the representation&including whether it extends to the criminal inquiry into Trump campaign affiliates' involvement with Russia.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Kasowitz Plus Dowd Equals Combative Mix for Team Trump

Depending on whom you ask, John Dowd is either the perfect choice to represent President Donald Trump or a combustible addition to his already unconventional criminal defense team.
21 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In First FCPA Action Under Trump, DOJ Declines to Prosecute Gas Company

President Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Justice has taken its first public action involving a foreign bribery case—a declination to prosecute Linde North America Inc. and Linde Gas North America.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ex-Deputy White House Counsel Joins Latham

Nicholas McQuaid, a deputy White House counsel to President Obama, joined Latham & Watkins as a partner on Monday, continuing Latham's hiring streak in New York.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Lobbyists Leave Bob Dole to Launch New Firm; Hunton Loses Office Head; Lawyers Circle Trump

Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law hires and other Washington, D.C., legal industry news. Read the previous edition here. Send tips and lateral moves to Katelyn Polantz at [email protected].
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

SDNY Takes New Tone on Judicial Assignment in Insider Trading Case

Jonathan Bach and Reed A. Smith write that a high-profile insider trading prosecution, currently pending in the Southern District of New York, has yielded the first indications that the tide may have turned against a questionable prosecutorial practice of using superseding indictments to channel certain criminal cases around the district's system of random judicial assignment.
23 minute read

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