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Foul With Routine Witness Trips Up Deutsche Libor Trial
The government's Libor-rigging case against two former Deutsche Bank
traders has suffered setbacks in recent days, after a routine witness put on to
authenticate documents admitted signing an untrue declaration, which led to
harsh words from a federal judge to prosecutors and the exclusion of a swath
of trading data from coming into the case. Read full article »
Musk To Pay $20M In Settlement Over Going-Private Tweets
Elon Musk has agreed to step down as chairman of Tesla Inc. and pay a $20
million fine as part of settlements unveiled by the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission on Saturday, two days after the agency sued Musk
for allegedly having posted misleading Twitter messages about taking Tesla Listen to our new podcast here
private. Read full article »
Dems' Emoluments Suit Not Just A Political Fight, Judge Says LAW FIRMS
President Donald Trump can't get out of Congressional Democrats' lawsuit Armstrong Teasdale
alleging he violated the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, a D.C. Arnold & Porter
federal judge ruled Friday, saying the lawmakers have standing to challenge BakerHostetler
the president, and their allegations amount to more than "a political dispute
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between the elected branches of government." Read full article »
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2 Ex-Oil Co. Execs Get Prison For Global Bribery Scheme Buckley Sandler
Two former executives of Dutch oil company SBM Offshore NV were Covington & Burling
sentenced by a federal judge in Houston on Friday afternoon to prison for DLA Piper
their roles in an international bribery scheme. Read full article »
Davis Polk
Boston Nonprofit Exec Indicted For Embezzling Over $1M Dorsey & Whitney
A former executive at a Boston nonprofit was charged with allegedly Eisner Gorin
embezzling more than $1.3 million from company bank accounts, the U.S. Epstein Becker Green
attorney for Massachusetts said on Thursday. Read full article » Gerard Fox Law
IN-DEPTH Geyser PC
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News Analysis Haynes and Boone
Supreme Court Cheat Sheet: 8 Cases To Watch Hogan Lovells
Hughes Hubbard
With D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh's fate as the ninth justice
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still hanging in the balance, the U.S. Supreme Court kicks off its
new term Monday without a case of blockbuster proportions. But Jones Day
there are several bread-and-butter business issues filling out the Kellogg Hansen
docket, including an antitrust attack against Apple, a dispute over King & Spalding
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liability in securities fraud actions and a case that could undo how Latham & Watkins
some class settlements are structured. Read full article » Levine Lee
SECURITIES Lewis Rice
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Ex-Fund Manager Who Lost $22M Sentenced To 8 Years
Mayer Brown
A former Morgan Stanley trader and self-styled hedge fund manager who
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took more than $24 million from friends and family and lost most of it through
risky options trading was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Manhattan McCune Wright
federal judge on Thursday. Read full article » McDermott Will
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Ex-Ocwen Exec Settles SEC Insider Trading Claims
Morgan Lewis
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that the
former vice president of servicing at Ocwen Financial Corp. has agreed to Munger Tolles
settle insider trading claims made in a complaint the commission filed in Murphy & McGonigle
Pennsylvania federal court the same day. Read full article » Norton Rose Fulbright
O'Melveny & Myers
Ex-Texas Pol Charged With Fraud Over Frack Sand Scheme
Orrick Herrington
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday announced it has
charged a former Texas state senator and another man over a scheme that Paul Hastings
raised millions from investors for a hydraulic fracking-related company based Perkins Coie
on misrepresentations. Read full article » Polsinelli
Proskauer Rose
CFTC Starts Insider Trading Task Force, Sues Energy Trader
Quinn Emanuel
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has
created an insider trading task force, the same day the agency accused a Robbins Russell
Houston-based energy commodities trader of using clients' trading Robins Kaplan
information to help a friend make money. Read full article » Seyferth Blumenthal
Sidley Austin
IT Exec Gets 3 Years For Role In $2.8M Fraud Scheme
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A former Illinois information technology firm executive was sentenced Friday
to 39 months in prison for taking part in a scheme to steal more than $2.8 Sterne Kessler
million from the company. Read full article » Sullivan & Cromwell
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FCPA
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Stryker Settles SEC's Latest FCPA Claims For $7.8M Williams & Connolly
Medical device company Stryker Corp. agreed to pay a $7.8 million penalty Winston & Strawn
over accounting and record keeping failures in China, India and Kuwait,
marking the company's second settlement with the U.S. Securities and COMPANIES
Exchange Commission over Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. Read 21st Century Fox Inc.
full article » AT&T Inc.
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LEGAL ETHICS
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NJ Atty Cops To Role In Short-Sale Mortgage Fraud Amazon.com Inc.
A New Jersey attorney on Friday copped to his role in a large-scale mortgage American Bar Association
fraud scheme that involved properties in Jersey City, Clifton, Union and American Standard
elsewhere and caused losses of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors Apple Inc.
announced. Read full article »
Avaya Inc.
HEALTH Bank of America Corporation
Bayer AG
Opioid Task Force Arrests 76 After Raid On Tribal Land CONCACAF
The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced 76 drug-related arrests Charter Communications Inc.
following a department-led undercover operation on North Carolina tribal Coinbase Inc.
lands, marking the latest development in a federal initiative created to combat
the opioid crisis in Native American communities. Read full article » Deutsche Bank AG
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Prosecutors Want $55M Restitution For Soccer Bribe Convicts Golden State Warriors
Federal prosecutors have told a New York federal court that two South Google Inc.
American soccer bosses convicted of bribery-related charges as part of the HSN, Inc.
wider FIFA corruption investigation should pay their victims nearly $55 million
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in restitution, plus a percentage of their salaries and some investigation
costs. Read full article » Henry Schein Inc.
Intercontinental Exchange Inc.
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Up Next At High Court: Justices Kick Off Term Short-Staffed Merck & Co Inc.
The U.S. Supreme Court will be one member short when it comes in session Monsanto Co.
Monday morning to hear a handful of cases being closely followed by Morgan Stanley
environmental and employment lawyers after sexual assault claims derailed NBCUniversal Inc.
D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh's hopes for a speedy confirmation. Read
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full article »
National Basketball Association
FBI Investigating Kavanaugh Allegations After Panel Vote Nestle
The FBI over the weekend started an investigation into the allegations of Oakland Raiders
sexual assault against D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh, following a Ocwen Financial Corporation
Senate Judiciary Committee vote Friday that advanced his Supreme Court
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nomination to the full Senate. Read full article »
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Rocket-er Docket: Mass. IP Case Sees 2 Trials In 6 Months
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Court watchers have been left marveling at the rapid pace of an intellectual
Pfizer Inc.
property dispute between a pair of Massachusetts 3D printing rivals, which
raced to trial in less than four months this summer and saw a second trial PhRMA
between the two end Thursday. Read full article » Platinum Partners LP
Prime Inc.
Calif. High Court Approves Updates To State Bar Rules
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The California Supreme Court on Friday approved a final version of its new
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Rules of Professional Conduct, which are set to go into effect in November,
including a major update to a provision governing how attorneys can counsel Scientific Games Corp.
clients regarding potentially criminal activity. Read full article » State Bar of California
Stolt-Nielsen SA
Manatt Can't Dodge Recruiter's $335K Trial Win, Panel Says
Stryker Corp.
A California appeals court on Friday affirmed a jury's finding that Manatt
Phelps & Phillips LLP must pay a legal recruiter 5335,000 for connecting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
firm with its managing partner-elect, ruling that substantial evidence backed Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
the jury's verdict. Read full article )> Limited
The Walt Disney Co.
Ex-King & Spalding Atty Aims To Block Lawyer's Lien Bid Trump Organization Inc.
A former King & Spalding LLP associate, who has accused the firm of ousting Tween Brands Inc.
him after he aired ethical concerns, said in a brief filed Friday in New York
federal court that his onetime attorney has no right to a piece of any future Twitter Inc.
settlement, asserting that the attorney cannot show good cause for his U.S. Chamber of Commerce
withdrawal. Read full article » Wayfair LLC
Weyerhaeuser Co.
Ex-Armstrong Teasdale Atty Wants Bias Suit Revived
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
A former Armstrong Teasdale LLP partner has asked the Eighth Circuit to
revive his Missouri federal age bias suit against the firm, arguing a ruling that ZTE Corp.
ended an earlier state suit shouldn't block his claims under the federal Age eBay Inc.
Discrimination in Employment Act. Read full article »
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Law Schools Need Admission Overhaul For Diversity: Report Bureau of Indian Affairs
A research and policy institute that focuses on legal education has unveiled a California Supreme Court
new report that recommends concrete changes law schools can make in
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order to help diversify the still disproportionately white legal industry, saying
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that law schools currently contribute to the profession's overall lack of racial
diversity. Read full article » Consumer Financial Protection
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week European Union
Technology giants said they'd embrace new federal privacy legislation in the Federal Bureau of Investigation
wake of headline-grabbing data misuse scandals, and the U.S. Supreme
Court is poised to start a new session that could see the justices tackle a Federal Trade Commission
growing circuit split on whether federal anti-discrimination law protects gay Fish and Wildlife Service
and transgender workers. Read full article » Food and Drug Administration
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The Top In-House Hires Of September
U.S. Attorney's Office
New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc. tapped a
former McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP attorney as its next general counsel, U.S. Census Bureau
and the new Fox company has picked a Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner to be its U.S. Department of Health and
legal boss. Here, Law360 looks at some of September's top in-house hires Human Services
and promotions. Read full article » U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Labor
In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360
For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and U.S. Department of the Interior
expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Read U.S. House of Representatives
full article » U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Senate
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Law360's Pro Say: Kavanaugh Showdown On Capitol Hill U.S. Supreme Court
All eyes were on Capitol Hill this week for a pivotal hearing on Dr. Christine United States District Court for the
Blasey Ford's allegations of sexual assault against U.S. Supreme Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
nominee Brett Kavanaugh. On this week's Pro Say podcast, we unpack the
whole chaotic week of news. Read full article »
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