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  • October 08, 2025

    4th Circ. OKs Verdict In Gang Case Despite Bad Translations

    The Fourth Circuit said Wednesday that a court translator's errors during trial don't merit overturning the convictions of three men on gang-related racketeering conspiracy and other charges.

  • October 08, 2025

    Firm Owner Benefited From Ex-Official's Help, Jury Hears

    A construction management firm owner who claimed she felt pressured to pay Kosta Diamantis and to hire the Connecticut budget official's daughter also accepted business advice and landed government contracts with Diamantis' assistance, helping the fledgling company she launched without much experience, the official's attorney argued Wednesday.

  • October 08, 2025

    Exxon Retail Voting Program Green Light Inspires Other Cos.

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent green light of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors has sparked interest among other firms exploring implementing their own such programs, as the oil and gas giant moves to counter activist groups.

  • October 08, 2025

    FirstEnergy Investors Seek Clarity On 6th Circ. Privilege Order

    FirstEnergy investors asked the Sixth Circuit Wednesday to clarify a recent ruling blocking them from accessing internal investigation documents in a lawsuit over a $1 billion bribery scandal, arguing that the company is holding up depositions due to its misreading of the court's opinion.

  • October 08, 2025

    Texas Atty Indicted On 5 Counts Of Cyberstalking

    A Texas attorney was indicted on five counts of cyberstalking Tuesday along with two charges of transmitting communications in interstate commerce, accused in federal court of harassing five people including attorneys via various forms of digital media.

  • October 08, 2025

    Mass. Atty Gets 9 Years For $3.5M Theft Schemes

    A Massachusetts attorney was sentenced on Wednesday by a federal judge to nine years in prison for stealing nearly $3.5 million from friends and two vulnerable relatives, including one who ended up in subsidized housing struggling to afford food.

  • October 08, 2025

    3rd Circ. Clarifies Good Conduct Credits For Prison Terms

    In a precedential ruling Wednesday, the Third Circuit clarified how good conduct credits for inmates serving time can be applied, finding that the credit of 54 days per year can be prorated to 28 days for the last six months of a man's 17-and-a-half-year sentence.

  • October 08, 2025

    NJ US Atty Appointment Was 'Shell Game,' 3rd Circ. Told

    Two New Jersey criminal defendants this week blasted the Trump administration's attempt to name Alina Habba as U.S. attorney for the state after her interim term ended, telling the Third Circuit that the government's plan was a "shell game."

  • October 08, 2025

    Trump Admin Challenges Denial Of Trans Care Subpoena

    The Trump administration told a Massachusetts federal judge that he got it wrong in quashing a subpoena for records of gender-affirming care at Boston Children's Hospital last month, urging the court to reconsider.

  • October 08, 2025

    Ex-CFTC Chief Trial Atty Joins Husch Blackwell In Kansas City

    A longtime chief trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has moved to Husch Blackwell LLP as a partner and member of the firm's financial services and capital markets industry team.

  • October 08, 2025

    DOJ Asks For Stay In PVC Antitrust Case Amid Criminal Probe

    The U.S. Department of Justice is asking an Illinois federal court to pause discovery in a case accusing polyvinyl chloride pipe manufacturers of using a commodity pricing service to exchange information and fix prices while a grand jury investigates the alleged activity.

  • October 08, 2025

    Gov't Resists Prison Delay For Lobbyist Who Evaded Tax

    A Miami lobbyist who was sentenced to prison for evading more than $1 million in taxes should not be allowed to delay the start of his term, the U.S. told a Florida federal court, saying the medical injection he argues he should take at home is available in prison.

  • October 08, 2025

    Comey Pleads Not Guilty, Will Contest US Atty's Appointment

    Former FBI Director James Comey pled not guilty Wednesday to one count of false statements and another count of obstructing a congressional hearing, appearing in a Virginia federal courthouse for the first time after a shake-up at the U.S. attorney's office netted a grand jury indictment last month.

  • October 07, 2025

    11th Circ. Wary Of IRS Procedure In FBAR Penalty Appeal

    An Eleventh Circuit panel Tuesday appeared concerned about IRS procedures that could keep a man from recouping $419,000 he paid to resolve his failure to disclose funds held in foreign bank accounts as he appeals a district court determination that he actually owes $2.2 million.

  • October 07, 2025

    Wine Co. Exec Cops To Wire Fraud Conspiracy In $99M Scam

    A United Kingdom wine company executive pled guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in New York federal court Tuesday in a criminal case accusing him of scamming investors out of $99 million after persuading them to make loans using wine collections as collateral.

  • October 07, 2025

    Goldstein's $968K Border Cash Claim To Be Admitted At Trial

    A Maryland federal jury will hear claims from prosecutors that SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein told Dulles International Airport border guards that the $968,000 in cash he brought into the country in 2018 had been gambling winnings, after a judge shot down his efforts to suppress his alleged statements Tuesday.

  • October 07, 2025

    Ex-Conn. Official Says Contractor Was The One Seeking Cash

    The first witness in a federal corruption case against former Connecticut budget official Kosta Diamantis is a repeat liar who misled his own masonry company's president into advancing his personal year-end bonus, which he used to leverage family connections and seek the government's favor, Diamantis' attorney suggested Tuesday during cross-examination.

  • October 07, 2025

    4th Circ. Urged To Reverse $10M Medicare Fraud Conviction

    A former physician's assistant on Tuesday requested that the Fourth Circuit reverse a six-year prison sentence for his involvement in a $10 million Medicaid fraud scheme, claiming evidence that could exonerate him was suppressed by a federal district court.

  • October 07, 2025

    Ex-Executives' Payroll Tax Convictions Biased, 4th Circ. Told

    Two former software executives asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse their criminal convictions stemming from their failure to pay employment taxes, claiming the jury's instructions were biased.

  • October 07, 2025

    Okla. Judge Cites McGirt Ruling For 200% Caseload Surge

    An Oklahoma federal judge chided a group of tribal plaintiffs in a dispute over jurisdiction in Indian Country after they inquired about the status of their summary judgment motions, saying a landmark 2020 Supreme Court ruling has increased the court's criminal caseload by 200%.

  • October 07, 2025

    Feds Seek 6 Years For Ex-Frank Exec's 'Brazen' $175M Con

    Prosecutors asked a New York federal judge Monday to sentence a former executive at financial aid startup Frank to six years in prison for helping its founder Charlie Javice trick JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the company for $175 million, saying he deserves no leniency for the "brazen" fraud.

  • October 07, 2025

    Ex-Cop Denied Bond During Breonna Taylor Shooting Appeal

    A former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officer who was found guilty of firing shots into the home of Breonna Taylor must remain in federal prison, after a district court judge refused to free him on bond pending his appeal of his three-year prison sentence.

  • October 07, 2025

    NH Justice Reaches No Contest Plea Deal In Criminal Case

    A New Hampshire Supreme Court justice entered a no contest plea Tuesday to a charge of criminal solicitation of misuse of position related to allegations she interfered with the state attorney general's investigation of her husband.

  • October 07, 2025

    Bondi Declines To Discuss James Comey Indictment

    Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected when questioned on the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and other controversies involving the U.S. Department of Justice. 

  • October 07, 2025

    Jones Day Grows Investigations Team With K&L Gates Atty

    An attorney with nearly 30 years of experience conducting internal investigations for clients on wide-ranging matters has moved his practice to Jones Day's Pittsburgh office after more than 27 years with K&L Gates.

Expert Analysis

  • Grappling With Workforce-Related Immigration Enforcement

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    To withstand the tightening of workforce-related immigration rules and the enforcement uptick we are seeing in the U.S. and elsewhere, companies must strike a balance between responding quickly to regulatory changes, and developing proactive strategies that minimize risk, say attorneys at Fragomen.

  • DOJ-HHS Collab Crystallizes Focus On Health Enforcement

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    The recently announced partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to combat False Claims Act violations, following a multiyear trend of high-dollar DOJ recoveries, signals a long-term enforcement horizon with major implications for healthcare entities and whistleblowers, say attorneys at RJO.

  • What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking

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    As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • How Courts Are Addressing The Use Of AI In Discovery

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    In recent months, several courts have issued opinions on handling discovery issues involving artificial intelligence, which collectively offer useful insights on integrating AI into discovery and protecting work product in connection with AI prompts and outputs, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.

  • Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch

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    With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.

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    In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year

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    In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.

  • How Cos. In China Can Tailor Compliance Amid FCPA Shifts

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement guidelines create a fluid business environment for companies operating in China that will require a customized compliance approach to navigate both countries’ corporate and legal systems, say attorneys at Dickinson Wright.

  • Series

    Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

  • APA Relief May Blunt Justices' Universal Injunction Ruling

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    The Administrative Procedure Act’s avenue for universal preliminary relief seems to hold the most promise for neutralizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA to limit federal district courts' nationally applicable orders, say attorneys at Crowell.

  • Managing Risks As State AGs Seek To Fill Enforcement Gap

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    Given an unprecedented surge in state attorney general activity resulting from significant shifts in federal enforcement priorities, companies must consider tailored strategies for navigating the ever-evolving risk landscape, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Opinion

    Prosecutors' Duty To Justice Sometimes Demands Mea Culpa

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    Two recent cases — U.S. v. Lucas and U.S. v. Echavarria — demonstrate that prosecutors’ special ethical duty to seek justice can sometimes be in tension with other obligations and incentives, but it nonetheless requires them to concede their mistakes in the interests of justice, say Eastern District of Texas law clerk Ian Stephens and Texas A&M University law professor Jemila Lea.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion

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    In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.

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