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Corporate Counsel

3 Ways to FCPA-Proof Your Compliance Function

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's implications are far-reaching, and the consequences of failing to comply with it are devastating.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Ex-Lobbyist Gets House Arrest for Implicating 2 Mayors

The ex-Becker & Poliakoff lobbyist who helped set up the arrests of two Miami-area mayors has been sentenced to house arrest and community service.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$56.5 Million Settlement Over Adderall Marketing Claims

The maker of Adderall, Pennsylvania-based Shire Pharmaceuticals, has settled a whistleblower suit for $56.5 million in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ex-Executive Apologizes for Insider Trading

By | September 25, 2014
Michael Lucarelli, a former executive at investor relations firm Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, pleaded guilty to an insider trading charge Wednesday, blaming drugs and long work hours in part for using information from drafts of press releases to earn nearly $1 million.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

D'Souza Avoids Prison, Sentenced to Lengthy Probation

Southern District Judge Richard Berman did everything but send conservative commentator and Obama critic Dinesh D'Souza to prison for funneling illegal campaign contributions to a college friend who was running for the U.S. Senate.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Dan Krisch: Campaign Law Problems Go Far Beyond Rowland

Don't get me wrong: I have no sympathy for our ex-con ex-gov.
4 minute read

International Edition

Addleshaw Goddard loses fourth practice head in 2014 as KWM swoops for corporate crime chief

Addleshaw Goddard's fraud, regulatory and corporate crime team head Ian Hargreaves is set to join King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWMSJB), making him the fourth sector head to depart the firm in the space of seven months.
2 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Ridgefield Lawyer Charged with Stealing $1 Million from Clients

A Ridgefield lawyer has been arrested for using client funds to pay for his own lavish lifestyle, including luxury cars, jewelry and an expensive Westchester County country club membership.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Limiting Evidence of Prior Bad Acts Under Rule 404(b)

Everyone knows that bad people do bad things. For this reason, evidence of prior wrongdoing by a criminal defendant is extremely powerful and goes a long way toward conviction. Such evidence is especially damaging in white-collar cases, where the charged crime is typically not violent and the defendant is educated, successful and looks good in a suit.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Stays Lifted in Requests for Allegedly Offensive AG Emails

A supervising grand jury judge has lifted stays on the right-to-know requests from several media outlets seeking purportedly pornographic materials uncovered during the investigation into how the state Attorney General's Office handled the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case.
5 minute read

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