The Challenges Of White-Collar Sentencing
Balance is critical in making your case at sentencing.
Lawyerly Lairs: A Harvard Law Fraudster’s $3.2 Million Mansion
From a big house to the big house....
How LexisNexis State Net Uses Gen AI To Tame Gov’t Data
Its new features transform how you can track and analyze the more than 200,000 bills, regulations, and other measures set to be introduced this year.
Andrew W.W. Caspersen’s Lawyers Avoid Having To Represent Him In Court
A.W.W.C. has pleaded guilty.
A Harvard Law Grad Loses More Than $100 Million; Will He Also Lose His Freedom?
His lawyer blames it all on "a pathological gambling addiction."
Morning Docket: 04.14.16
* "You're not getting out of jail today." Affluenza teen Ethan Couch has been sentenced as an affluenza adult to serve four consecutive 180-day terms for each person who was killed in a fatal drunken-driving car crash he caused in 2013. The judge may reconsider Couch's sentence in two weeks. [NBC News] * Who will be the next chair of Baker & McKenzie? Four prominent partners have put their names forward to compete for the title. This would be much more entertaining if it were a Biglaw ladder match where we could watch Paul Rawlinson, Gary Senior, Claudia Prado, and Eric Lasry fight for the shiniest brass ring of them all. [Big Law Business] * If only law schools had more clinical opportunities for future corporate drones: Law schools have offered students more chances to perform public interest work, but this law professor worries schools are "inculcat[ing] law students with a responsibility of social justice that reflects the morality of the faculty and administration." [WSJ Law Blog] * "It doesn't cry out as a triable case." Andrew Caspersen, the high-flying Harvard Law grad charged with a $95 million fraud scheme, likely won't face trial. His lawyer says that he thinks his client's criminal case will be resolved within the next 60 days. He thinks the case will end in a settlement with the SEC. [DealBook / New York Times] * Sources say that Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will not be prosecuted for battery after an incident with former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields following a press conference in March. Apparently the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office has a "higher standard to go forward with a prosecution." [POLITICO]
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High-Flying Harvard Law Grad Charged With $95 Million Fraud Scheme
His family has quite the thing for Harvard Law: his father and three brothers are all HLS alums.
How The Law Office Of Stephen L. Thomas Jr. Reclaimed Valuable Hours And Strengthened Client Care With 8am
Founded in 2017, the Baltimore-based Law Office of Stephen L. Thomas Jr. unified case management, communication, and payments with 8am—saving 10–20 hours a week for clients, trials, and growth.