White-Collar Crime
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Supreme Court, White-Collar Crime
The Supreme Court Holds You Don't Get To Hire A Lawyer If The Government Thinks Your Money Came From A Crime
A curious coalition of justices just dealt a significant blow to federal defendants. -
Crime, White-Collar Crime
Con Artists, AUSAs, And American Greatness
What does the con man tell us about America? - Sponsored
AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work. -
Department of Justice, Job Searches, White-Collar Crime
As Snow Blankets The East Coast, The Freeze At DOJ Is Over
The government can finally start staffing up. What does this mean for the legal world?
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Football, Gay, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Student Loans, Television, White-Collar Crime
Non-Sequiturs: 02.11.14
* Lawyer decides to fight City Hall… with spray-can graffiti. [KING] * A new survey finds that pre-law students want a 2-year law school model. They want to come out of law school with 33 percent less debt? Shocking. [Kaplan Test Prep] * Should law schools fire professors who stop writing post-tenure? I mean who does that? I thought tenured professors work harder than ever. [PrawfsBlawg] * A look at the future of computer forensics via Almost Human. Frankly, when I think of the future of criminal policing I think of a different Karl Urban vehicle. [The Legal Geeks] * With the revelation that standout defensive end Michael Sam is gay, a number of NFL types are trotting out the whole “he’ll be a distraction” excuse. That’s a pretty stupid excuse. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Who is the “tipsy coachman”? [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * It’s a zombie! The living dead! Or maybe just a living woman that banks have declared dead despite all evidence to the contrary. [ATL Redline] * Remember Brandon Hamilton? He used to be the the assistant dean of admissions at Louisville Law before he promised students $2.4 million more in scholarships than the school had to give. Well, he finalized his plea bargain. [The Courier-Journal] -
Clerkships, Harvard, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Insider Trading, Jury Duty, S.D.N.Y., Trials, U.S. Attorneys Offices, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
The Mathew Martoma Case, By The Numbers
Some fun facts about the just-concluded trial of Mathew Martoma. -
American Bar Association / ABA, Conferences / Symposia, White-Collar Crime
The White-Collar World: A Tale of Two Conferences
Where should you to learn more about the landscape of white-collar criminal law from your peers? -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Partner Issues, Real Estate, White-Collar Crime
Skadden Arps And The Funky Bunch
Wondering what a high-powered Skadden partner's office looks like? Here you go. -
Department of Justice, White-Collar Crime
Unsealing The Trial Penalty?
Kevin Ring's lawyers want the world to see the presentation he was given by DOJ. The DOJ does not want you to have any clue what they told him. - Sponsored
Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50… -
A. Raymond Randolph, Clerkships, D.C. Circuit, David Sentelle, Douglas Ginsburg, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Harvard, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Insider Trading, Law Schools, S.D.N.Y., U.S. Attorneys Offices, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Harvard Law Students Are The Best -- At Making Up Fake Transcripts
Which D.C. Circuit judges almost hired Mathew Martoma, defendant in the biggest insider trading case ever, back when he was a Harvard law student? -
Jed Rakoff, White-Collar Crime
Judge Rakoff On Prosecutors' Motives, DOJ's Explanations, And The Lack Of High-Level Prosecutions Following The Financial Meltdown
The most interesting question in white-collar crime is why there were no prosecutions arising out of the financial meltdown. -
Movies, White-Collar Crime
Lessons (For White-Collar Practitioners) From The Wolf Of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street may be outrageous, but it's a pretty accurate representation of white-collar practice. -
Department of Justice, Eric Holder, White-Collar Crime
Prison, Federalizing State Crime, And Drones -- All That And More In The Inspector General's Year-End Memo
A peek inside the Department of Justice. -
2nd Circuit, Benchslaps, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Jed Rakoff, Media and Journalism, S.D.N.Y., U.S. Attorneys Offices, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Judge Rakoff Rips The Government For Dropping The Ball On Financial Crimes
Prosecutors have more or less looked the other way when it comes to the activities that sparked the financial meltdown. Judge Rakoff offers his explanation of what's gone wrong.
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Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Department of Justice, Sentencing Law, U.S. Attorneys Offices, White-Collar Crime
Putting People In Prison To Get To The Cool Kids' Table
Cramming more people into prison should not be a badge of honor for an agency. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Crime, Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Small Law Firms, U.S. Attorneys Offices, White-Collar Crime, Williams & Connolly
4 Ways To Break Into White-Collar Criminal Defense Work
Matt Kaiser outlines the most common paths into a popular practice area. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Crime, John Edwards, Small Law Firms, White-Collar Crime
What Is 'White-Collar Criminal Defense'?
Matt Kaiser, our former SCOTUS correspondent, returns to our pages with a new column about white-collar criminal defense. -
Antonin Scalia, Biglaw, Department of Justice, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Politics, Privacy, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 09.26.13
* With a government shutdown looming, the Supreme Court will likely go about business as usual. In fact, Justice Alito is rolling his eyes at the mere concept of closing the Court’s doors as we speak. [SCOTUSblog]
* But in the meantime, both the Department of Justice and the federal judiciary are hunkering down and waiting for the collapse of law and order thanks to all of our petulant politicians in Washington, D.C. [Blog of Legal Times]
* Justice Scalia thinks the NSA’s surveillance programs may come before SCOTUS for an examination of a “right of privacy that comes from penumbras and emanations, blah blah blah, garbage.” [Associated Press]
* Perhaps it’s due to the “hangover from the collapse of the markets in 2008,” but white-collar defense practices are on the rise in Biglaw, and the firms’ leaders could not be happier. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* Another law school ranking just means there’s another way for Yale to whoop Harvard’s ass. Now we know that Lat’s alma mater is slightly better at producing law deans than Elie’s. [National Law Journal]
* A motion to dismiss has been filed, and now Jill Kelley, the Florida socialite who assisted in bringing about the end of General David Petraeus’s career in the CIA, is watching her legal case unravel. [CNN]
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D.C. Circuit, Department of Justice, Janice Rogers Brown, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Privacy, S.D.N.Y., Technology, White-Collar Crime, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 08.26.13
* DOJ busts giant fortune telling ring. You’d think they would have seen that coming. [Lowering the Bar] * Today’s New York Times points out that Judge Kopf penned an eloquent post regarding his reaction to the news that Shon Hopwood — a man Kopf sentenced to a lengthy prison term — is poised to clerk for Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the D.C. Circuit. Funny, it seems like I read that news before… [New York Times] * The government just doesn’t know what documents Edward Snowden stole. That’s part of the reason British authorities stopped David Miranda. That and the Brits love irony. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * The message here is not bad per se, but to all the law school apologists spreading it around based on the quote, “Yeah, I know, the legal market sucks, blah blah blah. But you don’t need thousands of jobs. You just need one,” well, that’s not a sustainable model. For students that is. [Medium] * In the midst of cracking down on the NYPD, Judge Scheindlin also issued a new opinion on e-Discovery. IT-Lex provides an in-depth review. [IT-Lex] * Another sign of the discrimination against women in business — women lag far behind in the commission of high-level corporate fraud. [Law and More] * BP has taken out a full-page ad in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to complain about how much money they’ve had to spend cleaning up that one time they catastrophically devastated an ecosystem through their own recklessness. It’s the most recent curious PR move on BP’s part… -
Department of Justice, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Insider Trading, S.D.N.Y., Securities Law, U.S. Attorneys Offices, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
SAC’s Rigorous Compliance Training Focused On Coming Up With Euphemisms For Insider Trading
The indictment that the Justice Department just filed against SAC Capital is something to behold. -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Securities and Exchange Commission, White-Collar Crime
Which Biglaw Firm Won the Robert Khuzami Lottery?
The revolving door spins again, for better or worse.