Ponzi schemes
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Crime
How To Make A Million Bucks From Day Trading: A Ponzi Adventure
Harness the limitless loss-making potential of day traders for your next criminal enterprise! -
Crime, Hedge Funds / Private Equity
Hedge Fund Manager Who Spent Investor Funds On Prized Teddy Bear Collection Gets Five Years Lopped Off Sentence
Teddy-loving Paul Greenwood will be home sooner than he and his beloved stuffed animals thought. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Crime, Securities Law
It Turns Out That The Feds Have Been Onto Martin Shkreli For Years
Incredibly, Shkreli might be even fuller of sh!t than we thought.
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Biglaw, Crime
Ex-Skadden Lawyer Who Botched Suicide Pleads Guilty To Running $5M Ponzi Scheme
How much time could he serve in prison for his crimes? -
Attorney Misconduct, Bar Exams, Law Professors, Legal Ethics, Securities and Exchange Commission
Law School Professor Busted Lying To Federal Judge, Goes Back to Teaching Ethics
The scandal may not bring down this professor, but failing as a professor just might. -
Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Legal Ethics, Money, Plaintiffs Firms, Politics, Reader Polls, Tax Law
Lawyers Of The Day: Attorneys Allegedly Acting Up
Allegations of a high-ranking government lawyer abusing the perks of his office, a tax lawyer engaging in tax fraud, and a real estate lawyer stealing $4 million -- who should be Lawyer of the Day? -
Bernie Madoff, Laura Taylor Swain, Pictures, S.D.N.Y., Technology, Trials
Bernie Madoff's Giant Screw: Is Photoshop A Proper Rule 403 Remedy?
A federal judge tells prosecutors to use Photoshop to remove an item from a picture. But is changing the totality of the image the same as excluding prejudicial evidence? -
Bernie Madoff, Money, Quote of the Day, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Law, Wall Street
Who's the Idiot Now, Bernie?
This infamous Ponzi schemer has some advice for the SEC. - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Bernie Madoff, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Real Estate, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Lawyerly Lairs: A Multimillion-Dollar Madoff Mansion
Peter Madoff, the lawyer who served as "chief compliance officer" for Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, used to live in this big house (before getting sent to the Big House). -
Ask the Experts, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Lateral Moves, Partner Issues
Time for the Law Firm PPM?
Does a law firm have an obligation to disclose certain information about itself in advance to a prospective lateral partner? If so, what might such a disclosure look like? -
Job Searches, Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Unemployment
Quote of the Day: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Is being employed by your law school after graduation similar to a Ponzi scheme? -
Bernie Madoff, Crime, Sentencing Law, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Sir Allen Stanford, Sentenced
How much of a sentence did Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford get? Was it bigger than Bernie Madoff's? -
American Bar Association / ABA, Bar Exams, Law Schools, LSAT, Lunacy, Reader Polls
ATL Readers to ABA: Enforce Stricter Standards
Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.” In contrast, Thomas Jefferson School of Law does not tremble before the toothless authority of the ABA. In fact, the school feels free to respond to utter institutional FAIL with peevish blame-shifting. Either […]
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Baseball, Bernie Madoff, Sports
Mets' Madoff Victory Is Bad News For Everybody Else
Don't worry about investing in a Ponzi scheme as long as you are smart or lucky enough to recoup your money before the whole thing falls apart. That is the upshot of U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff's decision to significantly limit the amount of money trustee Irving Picard can seek from New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon. Judge Rakoff's ruling will have a major effect on how much money is ever recovered for victims of Madoff's shenanigans, and could have an effect on the future liability for all investors in Ponzi schemes.... -
Bernie Madoff, Crime, Sentencing Law, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Breaking: Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years
Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years. Judge Denny Chin said that the sentence was necessary to deter other people from entering into these kinds of schemes. The Judge apparently said that he was struck that there was no letter written in support of Bernie Madoff. On the other hand, the judge received 141 […]