White-Collar Crime
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DealBreaker, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
MF Global Was Bad
Things get a little bit worse for Jon Corzine -
Biglaw, Gerald Shargel, Lateral Moves, Mafia, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms, White-Collar Crime
Musical Chairs: Major Mafia Lawyer Joins Biglaw Firm
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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).
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Books, Crime, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Sexual Harassment, White-Collar Crime
Non-Sequiturs: 04.30.13
* A patent infringement suit filed over the “hairy visor.” The best idea for combatting hair loss since SNL’s Chia Head. [Lowering the Bar] * The Hong Kong legal community is split over the continued donning of wigs. It’s nice how China allows them to think they have a choice on such matters. [Wall Street […] -
Airplanes / Aviation, Arent Fox, Biglaw, Depositions, Drinking, Gay Marriage, Husch Blackwell, Labor / Employment, Lateral Moves, Lindsay Lohan, Money, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 04.10.13
* The National Labor Relations Board, now with fewer recess appointments! Partners from Arent Fox and Morgan Lewis were nominated to fill seats necessary for the board’s quorum. [National Law Journal]
* Shearman & Sterling seems to be bucking the Biglaw system. The firm is cutting pay for high earners and increasing it for lower-ranking attorneys. We’ll probably have more on this later today. [Reuters]
* Dentons (formerly known as SNR Denton) recently poached a six-partner team led by Stephen Hill from Husch Blackwell to bolster its white collar practice. Welkom too teh furm, guise! [Am Law Daily]
* “It is technically more legal to screw a walrus than to get gay married.” You know you live in a very sad place when not only do article headlines like this exist, but they’re also CORRECT. [Death and Taxes]
* An American Eagle pilot is facing attempted drunk flying charges. Yes, that’s a thing, but come on now, anyone who’s seen the movie Flight knows you can fly a plane while you’re wasted. [Bloomberg]
* Lindsay Lohan blew off a deposition in Los Angeles yesterday. Cut the girl some slack; she had to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman, which was way more important. [Contra Costa Times]
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Biglaw, Conferences / Symposia, In-House Counsel, Partner Issues, Patrick Fitzgerald, White-Collar Crime
Inside Straight: Pat Fitzgerald On Handling Prosecutors
Advice for in-house lawyers on how to respond when prosecutors come a-knocking, from U.S. Attorney turned Skadden partner Patrick Fitzgerald. You're welcome! -
Celebrities, Tax Law, White-Collar Crime
Stephen Baldwin Plea Agreement -- Thank God We Won't Lose His Acting Genius
Stephen Baldwin has reached an agreement in his tax case. Avoids being locked up with Pauly Shore again. -
Gambling, Gambling / Gaming, Politics, Technology, White-Collar Crime
Go Ahead and Short Your 'InTrade Will Come Back' Contract
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Texas, White-Collar Crime
Dallas DA Learns You Don't Mess With Texas... Judges
The Dallas DA is held in contempt over a high-profile mortgage fraud case against a high-profile rich kid. -
Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Department of Justice, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Jack Abramoff, Legal Ethics, Sentencing Law, Tim Wu, White-Collar Crime
The Kevin Ring Case Is a Scandal and a Disgrace: Five Things I Think You Should Know
A highly subjective look at the case against Jack Abramoff associate Kevin Ring. The writer, a friend of Ring's, argues it was a miscarriage of justice. -
Small Law Firms, State Judges, Texas, White-Collar Crime
Stanford-Educated Attorney Convicted of Racketeering Jumps Off Bridge
Authorities are searching for a convicted attorney who jumped from a Texas bridge. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Confirmations, Deaths, Election Law, Eric Holder, Federal Judges, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Securities and Exchange Commission, Supreme Court, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 02.27.13
* The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments today on a challenge to the Voting Rights Act. If for some reason you’re not sure why you should care about this, here’s everything you need to know to sound intelligent at the water cooler. [New York Times]
* If the sequester goes into effect this Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder warns that we’re probably going to see “profound” effects across the entire justice system. America, f**k yeah! Coming again to save the motherf**kin’ day, yeah! [National Law Journal]
* It looks like the tiny and terrifying Mary Jo White is currently on the Congressional pageant trail ahead of her March confirmation hearing for SEC leadership, and now she’s even vowed never to return to Debevoise & Plimpton. [DealBook / New York Times]
* A coup for Cadwalader and a casualty for Cravath: Jim Woolery chose another firm over his former home of 17 years, and it may have something to do with the Biglaw bonus market leader’s “sometimes antiquated” regime. [Am Law Daily]
* “There are many more fish chasing the same business,” but that’s not stopping new white-collar boutiques from trying to compete for business in what some say is an overly crowded market. [New York Law Journal]
* Louis Oberdorfer, district judge of the D.D.C. and former SCOTUS clerk, RIP. [Blog of Legal Times]
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Immigration, Labor / Employment, Magic Circle, Non-Sequiturs, Pepper Hamilton, Privacy, White-Collar Crime
Non-Sequiturs: 02.21.13
* A study finds that over 93 percent of attorneys, judges, and legal writing professors think the writing they’re reading is bad. One could argue this is evidence of a crisis in writing skills. Or one could argue that lawyers are a**holes who think every voice other than their own is wrong. It’s a 50/50 […]
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Crime, D.C. Circuit, Jack Abramoff, Sentencing Law, White-Collar Crime
Prosecutors Gone Wild: The Case of Kevin Ring
Prosecutors have waaay too much power to bully non-cooperators. -
Banking Law, White-Collar Crime
Which Bank Deserves Criminal Prosecution? The Smallest One, Obviously!
Cyrus Vance is pressing criminal charges against a small bank. Does he just not see the big ones? -
Biglaw, Crime, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Lawyer of the Day: An Allegedly Loose-Lipped Cravath Associate
If you're smart enough to get a job at Cravath, you should be smart enough to keep client confidences, right? -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Donald Trump, Election 2012, Gay Marriage, Gloria Allred, Insider Trading, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 10.24.12
* While the mainstream media may claim the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is neck-and-neck in a dead heat, the majority of Am Law 200 managing partners are predicting the incumbent will be reelected for another four years. [Am Law Daily]
* In the meantime, infamous media whores Donald Trump and Gloria Allred have both promised “October surprises” for our presidential candidates. Guess we’ll finally find out what they’re yapping about later today after Allred gets back from court and the Don tweets. [ABC News]
* “These [lawyers] are my kind of scum. Fearless and inventive.” Raj Rajaratnam’s attorneys plan to appeal his insider trading conviction later this week on claims that the government improperly wiretapped him. [DealBook / New York Times]
* There’s no way this statute is going to be pushed back into the closet. New York’s Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to the state’s gay marriage law on the basis of a violation of open-meeting laws. [Bloomberg]
* Lindsay Lohan’s father wants a judge to place the fading star under a conservatorship. Hey, it worked for Britney Spears, right? And on the plus side, it’s a great way to get her name back into the news. [CNN]
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Crime, Gay, Hotties, Law Schools, Money, Rape, Sentencing Law, Vanderbilt, White-Collar Crime
Having a Gay Old Time: Couple Sentenced for Massive Theft from Vanderbilt Law (and Statutory Rape)
A former administrator at Vanderbilt Law School just got a hefty sentence after pleading guilty to theft and statutory rape. His boyfriend got sentenced too. How much time did they get, and what are some of the salacious allegations? -
Art, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Crime, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Money, Partner Issues, White-Collar Crime
Dewey Have A Criminal Case On Our Hands?(Plus your chance to own a piece of Dewey.)
Some updates on Dewey & LeBoeuf, regarding the criminal investigation and the firm's art collection - which you can purchase a piece of! -
Crime, Department of Justice, In-House Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Law, White-Collar Crime
Reading Tea Leaves: Defense Bar Freaking Out About the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Why are defense lawyers suddenly freaking out about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)?