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Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: Daniel Gitner of Lankler Siffert & Wohl

Gitner kept U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara from claiming another scalp in his war on insider trading. More importantly, he kept his client out of jail.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Industrial Spy Gets 15 Years for Selling Secrets to China

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said Walter Liew should be held to account for his "white-collar crime spree."
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

DPAs and NPAs Put Big Price Tags on Corporate Crime

If you think the cost of white-collar crime is rising, you may be right.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

The Morning Wrap

A round up of legal news from ALM-affiliated publications and around the web: Obama wants 40 more immigration judges; U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's winning streak ends; Apple loses a patent case in China.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Broker-Dealer Compliance in Era of Regulatory Pressures

Robert C. Gottlieb and Derrelle M. Janey discuss key points from the Brown Brothers Harriman case, where the private bank was fined a record $8 million for anti-money laundering compliance failures: compliance programs must be intensely active, living organisms that constantly "monitor," continuously "investigate," "ensure" that issues are reported and, once reported, have an adequate protocol for "updating" on the activity at issue.
12 minute read

Litigation Daily

Rajaratnam Verdict Ends U.S. Attorney's Winning Streak

With some indirect help from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Rengan Rajaratnam and his lawyers at Lankler Siffert & Wohl have snapped Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's undefeated record in insider-trading cases.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Orrick White-Collar Chair Departs as Firm Exits Seed Theft Case

Was Orrick spooked by a senior partner's involvement in a corporate espionage case related to China's hunger for GMO seed technology? The firm won't say, but the partner is gone and the firm has withdrawn from the high-profile case even as it continues to expand.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

SunTrust Settles Criminal Probe for $320 Million

SunTrust Banks Inc. has agreed to pay as much as $320 million as part of a settlement reached Thursday to resolve a criminal investigation into the company's delay in approving mortgage modification applications, according to The Wall Street Journal.
2 minute read

Law.com

Judge in Benghazi Case Discloses Ties to Justice Dept.

The presiding judge in the criminal case against a suspected ringleader of the attack on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, disclosed his wife's former ties to the U.S. Department of Justice during a hearing on Tuesday.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Husband of Atlanta 'Housewife' Sentenced to 8 Years

The husband of one of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Atlanta to an eight-year prison term for a bank fraud scheme that involved stolen checks, fraudulent auto loans, fraudulent tax returns and stolen identities.
3 minute read

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