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New York Law Journal

'Grimm' Outlook for Continuing Conspiracy Prosecutions?

In his Corporate Crime column, Steven Witzel, a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, writes: If sustained, the decision in 'United States v. Grimm' may significantly limit the government's ability to prosecute otherwise time-barred actions and provides defendants with new grounds to assert statute of limitations defenses.
12 minute read

Litigation Daily

Gibson Dunn Stymies DOJ in Trial of Reverse Merger Exec

Claims of rampant fraud among Chinese companies that won backdoor listings on U.S. stock exchanges have sparked regulatory scrutiny and a raft of class actions. But this week the Department of Justice suffered a mistrial in one of its first criminal cases targeting a reverse merger company executive.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Walmart Rolling Out Big Compliance Reforms

It's not easy being the world's largest company, especially after making some of the world's largest compliance blunders.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

SEC Makes Nonprosecution Pact With Individual

It's said to be the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's first such agreement with a person, not a corporation.
2 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Litigation Department Of The Year: Wiggin and Dana's White-Collar Group Features Former Prosecutors, Regulators

When big companies face big problems, they usually hire giant law firms with deep benches of lawyers. But one more modest-sized Connecticut firm is often hired to enter the ring against government prosecutors and regulators.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

The Morning Wrap

A round up of news from ALM-affiliated publications and around the web: The legal fallout from L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's recorded comments; the indictment of Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y.; and a judge bars prosecutors from mentioning pornography in a ticket-fixing trial.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Former Head of DOJ Criminal Division Joins Covington

Covington & Burling has nabbed another high-level U.S. Department of Justice lawyer from Attorney General Eric Holder's ranks. Mythili Raman, who left her post as acting head of Criminal Division in March, is now an equity partner at the Washington firm and will focus on litigation and white-collar defense.
3 minute read

Law.com

Anticorruption Compliance: Companies Get the Message

The "State of Anti-Corruption Compliance Survey 2014" from Dow Jones Risk & Compliance suggests regulation is doing its job.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Litigation Departments Of The Year 2014

By | April 28, 2014
What you will likely find most interesting in the articles on the following pages is the incredible array of cases handled by Connecticut firms—an intellectual property case involving a dental manufacturer's patent, an employment law case involving racial slurs, and financial litigation involving allegedly misled investors, to name but a few. If you want to learn just a little more about a practice area that's not your own, this is a painless way to do it.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Litigation Departments Of The Year 2014

By | April 28, 2014
The Connecticut Law Tribune's annual Litigation Departments of the Year competition was truly a case study. We had well over 30 law firms submit nearly 60 applications, with some firms opting to compete in more than one category. We picked 15 winners.
6 minute read

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