White-Collar Crime
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White-Collar Crime
Prosecutors Can Be Sued For Misleading A Grand Jury In The Second Circuit
Appellate court strikes a blow to prosecutors. -
White-Collar Crime
An AUSA Would Like His Time To Be Worth More Than Ted Olson's; Or, DOJ's New Appellate Threat So It Can Avoid Work
Spending any time actually "lawyering" should demand a high price for federal prosecutors. - 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. -
White-Collar Crime
You Should Go To The NACDL's White-Collar Conference in New York
Learn what's happening in your area of the law.
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Biglaw, Malpractice
Ex-Biglaw Attorney Files Lawsuit Claiming His Former Firm Hung Him Out To Dry
If you get into legal trouble as a result of work you perform at a law firm, shouldn't that firm cover the cost of defending you? -
White-Collar Crime
Can Punishment For The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine Be More Than A Walk In The Park?
The Eighth Circuit should soon decide if you can go to jail for doing nothing wrong. -
White-Collar Crime
Prison For The Lion Killer! Prison For Everyone!
Why is the answer to everything always prison? -
White-Collar Crime
Gamely Justifying Sentences Everyone Else Thinks Are Wrong
Meet the kind of person opposing bipartisan prison reforms. -
Crime, Sentencing Law, White-Collar Crime
Kozinski On Juries, Sentencing, and Justice
Judge Kozinski has some ideas for fixing our criminal justice system. - 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… -
Crime, Law Schools, Money
Law School's Ex-CFO Arrested After Spending $50K At Hooters And Other Inappropriate Expenses
Guess what, Barry Law students? Your tuition dollars really were being put to work! -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.09.15
* If Taylor Swift doesn’t like a photographer she just shakes it off… and then roughs him up according to her contract. [Gawker]
* Bankers commit crimes for the dumbest reasons. [Dealbreaker]
* Chadbourne closes its Beijing office, leaving the firm with no more boots on the ground in Asia. It’s like the Asian Pivot… but backward. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* The Florida Supreme Court just ordered the legislature to redraw some of the state’s congressional districts before 2016. All that hard gerrymandering work for nothing, huh? [Reuters via Yahoo News]
* Richard Hsu of Shearman & Sterling and the host of the Hsu Untied podcast finds himself on the other side of this interview. [One-400]
* Massively underpaying lawyers. It’s not just for Massachusetts any more. [Legal Cheek]
* Katten Muchin is back in hot water after the Seventh Circuit revived a malpractice suit. [Law 360]
* Judge Rakoff relishes an opportunity to sit by designation on the Second Circuit. [Dealbreaker]
* A reminder that Bloomberg BNA is hosting its inaugural Big Law Business Summit next week to hear from in-house counsel about the evolving relationship between Biglaw and its clients. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
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White-Collar Crime
Why Judges and Prosecutors Don't Care If They're Right
Judge Alex Kozinski explains that a lot of fault for our messed-up criminal justice system lies with judges and prosecutors. -
Crime, Law Schools, Money
Law School's Chief Financial Officer Arrested For Grand Theft
This is an active criminal investigation, and the CFO has been charged with a felony. -
White-Collar Crime
Should Judges Interpret the Law?
Judge Rakoff suggests that administrative actions not only tilt the outcome further toward the government, they make bad law.
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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
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White-Collar Crime
Jeffrey Toobin Defends Hastert Prosecution, Proves How Stupid It Is
The Hastert prosecution, in other words, is a fight in our criminal courts about the government’s belief that it has a right to know more about us than we want the government to know. -
White-Collar Crime
The Constitution Applies Even in Texas
A white-collar defense attorney secures the release of a man sent to death row by a crooked system. -
Biglaw, Crime, White-Collar Crime
Former Biglaw Partner To Plead Guilty To Criminal Tax Law Violations
He's not the first Biglaw partner to run afoul of the tax laws, and he won't be the last. -
White-Collar Crime
The Supreme Court On Criminal Intent; Or, The Rise And Fall Of Tone Dougie
Thank you, Tone Dougie, for your role in the development of American constitutional law. -
White-Collar Crime
Soccer, International Criminal Law, and Thucydides
What ancient history teaches us about the FIFA indictments. -
White-Collar Crime
The Conspiracy Conspiracy
This Friday, May 15 NACDL is having a one-day conference on conspiracy law.