By C. Ryan Barber | November 17, 2020
Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. Let's jump right in, and thanks for reading and for your feedback.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp | November 17, 2020
In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp discuss the court's decision in 'Razzouk', which continues a trend in favor of authorizing restitution by applying a non-categorical approach to the crimes-against-property provision of the MVRA, thereby making restitution contingent on the manner in which the offense was committed rather than on the crime's elements.
By Jonathan Ringel | November 13, 2020
Over 46 years Larry Thompson has been elected King & Spalding's first Black partner, led fights against terrorism and corporate crime for President George W. Bush and served as the top lawyer for PepsiCo.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Andrew Maloney | November 12, 2020
"I think the expectation generally is that Rip Van Winkle wakes up, and we see a much different environment," Dechert's David Kelley said.
By C. Ryan Barber | November 11, 2020
Among the Biden transition advisers are a number of former Obama administration officials, including some who were involved in the Dodd-Frank reforms that followed the financial crisis.
By C. Ryan Barber | November 10, 2020
Duke Law's Christopher Schroeder, a former Obama-era Justice Department lawyer, is leading the Biden DOJ team. The team also includes Pam Karlan of Stanford Law and myriad Big Law partners.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan S. Sack | November 9, 2020
The meaning of "exceeds authorized access" in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act will soon be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in 'United States v. Van Buren'. In their White-Collar Crime article, Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack describe the Circuit split and explore different methods used by appellate courts to interpret these operative words of the CFAA. The Supreme Court will have the opportunity once more to articulate its approach to interpreting white-collar criminal statutes.
By Suzette Parmley | November 6, 2020
Mariellen Dugan, a partner at Gibbons in Newark, and Richard Spatola, senior attorney and trust & compliance officer with IBM in New York, add to the firm's expansion in the last 12 months, in which it has brought on six attorneys total.
By Ross Todd | November 6, 2020
In a case where the DOJ was initially seeking a penalty of as much as $9 billion on charges of economic espionage and trade secret theft, Latham's Leslie Caldwell and Catherine Palmer negotiated a $60 million fine and a guilty plea to one count of receiving and possessing a stolen trade secret.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By William F. Johnson | November 4, 2020
In his Corporate Crime column, William F. Johnson writes: Practitioners should be aware of the risk that courts will permit an adverse inference against their client in a civil case based on another person's invocation of their right not to testify, even when the client has not invoked.
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