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From: New York Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: KPMG's Middendorf Says He Blew Whistle On PCAOB Leaks Date: "Cue, 05 Mar 2019 08:36:54 +0000 bj_aw360 New York NEW YORK Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS c'2,Law360 Pro Say Podcast KPMG's Middendorf Says He Blew Whistle On PCAOB Leaks A former KPMG partner on trial for an alleged conspiracy to steal inspection plans from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board took the stand in his own defense Monday, telling a Manhattan federal jury he'd acted appropriately, not criminally, upon learning of the scheme. Read full article » Ex-Trump Associate Hacked Mariah Carey's Ex-Manager: Suit A former associate of President Donald Trump hacked electronics belonging to Mariah Carey's ex-manager, according to a $1 million suit that was filed in New York federal court Friday shortly before the defendant, a Russian-born businessman, is slated to testify to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow Listen to our new podcast here project. Read full article » LAW FIRMS Akin Gump 7th MoFo Atty Added To $200M Pregnancy Bias Suit Axinn A former New York-based Morrison & Foerster LLP lawyer has become the seventh female attorney to join a $200 million California federal class action Bailey & Glasser accusing the firm of systematically discriminating against pregnant women, Baker McKenzie claiming she was unlawfully fired for not being adequately "committed" to the Brown Rudnick firm after twice taking maternity leave. Bruch Hanna Read full article » Cadwalader Wickersham Wesco Says NY Attys Hid Misconduct Claims, Voiding Policy Clifford Chance Wesco Insurance Co. sued Zane & Rudofsky in New York state court on Cohen & Frankel LLP Monday, saying the law firm didn't disclose that it was once on the verge of Cole Schotz being sanctioned for misconduct and likely faced a malpractice suit when it Davis Polk purchased a professional liability policy. Emery Celli Read full article » Fried Frank CONSUMER PROTECTION Gibson Dunn Harris Wiltshire Coffee Seller Hit With False Labeling Suit Over 'Kona' Blends Hunton Andrews Kurth A consumer hit L & K Coffee Co. LLC with a proposed class action in New Jones Day York federal court Sunday alleging some of its Magnum Exotics coffee blends Katsky Korins are wrongly labeled as "Kona" coffee because the mixtures don't have the same composition as authentic "Kona" coffee. Kirkland & Ellis Read full article » Latham & Watkins Levi & Korsinsky EMPLOYMENT Levitt & Boccio Lucas Magazine EFTA00032454 NY Wants Info On Cos. Getting Federal Wage Theft 'Amnesty' Manatt Phelps The New York attorney general's office sued the Trump administration Marks O'Neill Monday, demanding records from the U.S. Department of Labor related to a McTigue Law federal wage theft self-reporting program called Payroll Audit Independent Morrison & Foerster Determination, calling it a "non-enforcement initiative" that gives amnesty to violators. Morrison Cohen Read full article » Nexsen Pruet Nixon Peabody Firm Ordered To Drop Arbitration Bid In $2.3M Atty Fee Fight Ogletree Deakins The New York federal judge who oversaw the settlement of a case focused Paul Hastings on a Citigroup employee retirement plan ordered one of the plaintiff co- Paul Weiss counsels on Monday to withdraw a request for court-ordered arbitration to resolve a dispute over $2.3 million in legal fees. Petrillo Klein Read full article » Pierce Bainbridge Pillsbury Winthrop SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR Pryor Cashman Quinn Emanuel Insys Investors Seek Cert. In Fentanyl Stock Drop Suit Robinson Brog Insys Therapeutics Inc. investors urged a New York federal judge Friday to certify their putative class action accusing the pharmaceutical company of Ropes & Gray overstating its opioid sprays financial strength, a move that sparked a stock Rubin Ehrlich downturn once the accounting problems were revealed. Sanford Heisler Sharp Read full article » Schulte Roth Sheehan & Associates PC Wiretapped Ex-Asst. DA's Suit Against NYC, Staff Survives Simpson Thacher A former Brooklyn assistant district attorney who sued New York City and several city workers who allegedly failed to prevent renegade prosecutor Tara Skadden Lenich from wiretapping her has had most of her case survive dismissal, with Stein Mitchell the court cutting one claim against individual defendants but greenlighting the Sullivan & Cromwell rest of the suit. TMK Attorneys PC Read full article » Trench Rossi Adidas Bribery Convict Contests Schools' Restitution Bids Vorys Sater One of three men convicted of bribing student basketball players to attend Wachtell Lipton Adidas-sponsored schools urged a New York federal judge Monday to deny Williams & Connolly two of the schools' restitution bids, saying they filed the requests too late and Willkie Farr are not entitled to attorney fees. Read full article » COMPANIES Abercrombie & Fitch MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Adidas AG Amazon.com Inc. Nasdaq Matches Euronext's Bid For Norway Exchange Nasdaq Inc. on Monday increased its offer to buy Norwegian stock exchange BNSF Railway Co. Oslo Bors VPS, matching a competing bid from Euronext NV worth 6.8 billion Big Lots Inc. Norwegian krone ($795 million) as the trading venues look to sway CIM Group Inc. shareholders to their respective sides. Citigroup Inc. Read full article » Euronext Amsterdam NV ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL HSBC Holdings PLC JBS SA EPA Chief Touts Superfund Progress, Slams Enviro Critics JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on KPMG International Monday touted the EPA's success in finalizing cleanups at Superfund sites Linkedln Corp. across the country in 2018, and slammed environmentalists who say too Lord & Taylor LLC many sites are being written off too quickly. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Read full article » Center REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. NBCUniversal Inc. EFTA00032455 NYC Real Estate Week In Review National Collegiate Athletic Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP Association and Cole Schotz PC were among more than a dozen law firms that helped Public Company Accounting with the largest New York City real estate deals that hit public records last Oversight Board week, a group of transactions that included WeWork's $850 million purchase Regents of the University of of a Manhattan property. California Read full article » Stamps.com Inc. Terreno Realty Corp. PEOPLE Toys "R" Us Inc. Axinn Hires Ex-Manatt Phelps Competition Pro For NY Office Twitter Inc. Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP has announced the hiring of an attorney who UDR, Inc. formerly co-chaired Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP's antitrust and competition Vornado Realty Trust practice as a partner in its New York office. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Read full article » WeWork LLC Pierce Bainbridge Adds Compliance Chair, Fordham Prof GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP has added as partners a recent Administrative Conference of the Baker McKenzie compliance and investigations group practice chair and a United States former Ropes & Gray counsel with experience in a wide range of commercial, securities and complex litigation, the firm announced Monday. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Read full article » Executive Office of the President EXPERT ANALYSIS Federal Election Commission Federal Trade Commission Women In Law Need Equal Treatment, Not Affirmative Action Securities and Exchange The sheer number of women entering the legal profession means gender Commission equality is coming, one way or the other. This Women's History Month, U.S. Attorney's Office BigLaw firms should reflect on this with the understanding that they dismiss U.S. Copyright Office the flight of senior female attorneys from their ranks at their peril, says Tamara Kurtzman, founder of TMK Attorneys PC. U.S. Department of Justice Read full article » U.S. Department of Labor U.S. Department of Transportation LEGAL INDUSTRY U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ex-Baker McKenzie Atty To Be Deposed Over Tell-All Memo U.S. Supreme Court Baker McKenzie's alleged dirty laundry could soon be aired by a Virginia Wage and Hour Division federal court after a judge on Friday ordered the deposition of a former partner who wrote a mysterious memo regarding alleged misconduct by the firm's attorneys in a Brazilian corruption case tied to one of the world's largest meatpacking companies. Read full article » Justice Ginsburg Bounces Back With 3 Decisions In 3 Weeks U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has penned three opinions for the high court in the past three weeks, apparently driven to write after missing months of work following cancer surgery in December. Read full article » Jones Day Takes McGahn Back After White House Stint Donald McGahn is returning to Jones Day to act as the global law firm's U.S. government regulation practice leader, the firm announced Monday, following a stint as White House counsel that included orchestrating the Trump administration's nomination of two U.S. Supreme Court justices. Read full article » AG Barr Won't Recuse Himself From Mueller Probe Ethics officials at the U.S. Department of Justice have cleared Attorney General William Barr to oversee the probe being conducted by special EFTA00032456 counsel Robert Mueller, according to a Monday statement, despite concerns about Barr's possible bias against the investigation. Read full article » Former Acting AG Matt Whitaker Leaves DOJ Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has resigned from the U.S. Department of Justice, a DOJ spokesperson confirmed Monday, less than a month after William Barr was sworn in to replace him. Read full article » New Clifford Chance Program Offers 2-Month Unpaid Leave Clifford Chance LLP is trying out a program that would allow attorneys to take two months of unpaid leave under a new framework at the firm meant to provide attorneys with a more flexible approach to their work, the firm announced Monday. Read full article » Akin Gump Initiative Will Watch For Retail Trends, Risks Attorneys across Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP are trying to prepare themselves and their clients for the future of the retail industry's legal landscape through a new "retail industry initiative," the firm said. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Big Lots' General Counsel Ronald "Rocky" Robins Jr. is familiar with both the corporate and private practice realms, as he has held two general counsel positions and worked at Davis Polk and Vorys Sater. Here, the general counsel of Big Lots shares the most rewarding parts of being a lawyer and the qualities he values most in outside counsel. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Associate Insurance Associate Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP New York. 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