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From: New York Law360 <news-alt(aw360.com> To: < Subject: Greenberg Traurig Can't Avoid Trial In Forgery Suit Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:58:00 +0000 i- aw360 New York NEW YORK Law360 Closed For Thanksgiving Newsletter service will resume on Monday, Nov. 26 Wednesday, November 21, 2018 Follow Law360 TOP NEWS bial.aw360 Pro Say Podcast Greenberg Traurig Can't Avoid Trial In Forgery Suit A state judge in Manhattan on Tuesday rejected a request by Greenberg Traurig LLP to avoid a trial in a suit by a former Apollo fund manager who says the firm knowingly used a forged document in litigation against him, saying all that is left of the case must be decided by a jury in April. Read full article » Vijay Singh, PGA Settle 5-Year Deer-Antler Doping Saga Golfer Vijay Singh has settled his lawsuit alleging the PGA Tour acted in bad faith by suspending him for using a deer-antler supplement that wasn't actually banned, according to documents filed Tuesday in New York state court. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here Prison An Ignominious End To Gun Atty's Career, Judge Says LAW FIRMS A Manhattan federal judge hit gun lawyer John Chambers with a year and a day in prison Tuesday for bribing a former New York City police sergeant for Akerman favors in securing clients' gun permits, saying the sentence marked "an Allen & Overy ignominious end to a legal career that started with so much promise." Read Baker McKenzie full article » Boehl Stopher UK Lawyer Gets 20 Months For Decade Of Dodging US Taxes Brenner Saltzman A Manhattan federal judge sentenced English lawyer Michael Little to 20 Brune Law PC months in prison Tuesday for helping the children of a deceased investor CKR Law LLP dodge taxes on their $14 million inheritance over a decade and for failing to Cadwalader Wickersham pay his own taxes, ruling also that the former Royal Marine lied as he testified in his own defense. Read full article » Cahill Gordon Caplin & Drysdale US Nabs Swiss Banker Wanted In Failed Case Against PE CEO Casillas Santiago A Swiss banker wanted for years by U.S. authorities for an alleged market Clifford Chance manipulation scheme has been arrested and extradited to the U.S., to face Covington & Burling fraud and conspiracy charges in a stock manipulation case that once targeted private equity CEO Benjamin Wey before it fell apart. Read full Cravath Swaine article » DLA Piper Davis Polk CONSUMER PROTECTION Debevoise & Plimpton Dewey Pegno Spirit Passengers' Bag-Fee Fraud Suit Preempted Dykema Gossett PLLC EFTA00032623 A New York federal judge on Tuesday tossed a proposed class action Earthjustice alleging Spirit Airlines Inc. defrauded consumers by concealing its carry-on Eversheds Sutherland bag fees on tickets sold through other online travel agents, saying federal law Fitch Law Partners preempts their contract and fraud claims. Read full article » SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR Foley & Lardner Fredericks Peebles Vending Machine Co. Staff Ask 2nd Circ. To Nix Fraud Raps Freshfields A group of former employees of a defunct Long Island vending machine Fried Frank company on Tuesday urged the Second Circuit to vacate their convictions for Gallet Dreyer defrauding customers by lying about the money-making potential of the Gibson Dunn machines, with one worker citing ineffective assistance of counsel. Read full article » Gleiss Lutz Goodwin Convicted Ex-Vereit Exec Attacks Witness' Credibility Greenberg Traurig Convicted former Vereit Inc. executive Brian Block angled for a retrial on Halperin Battaglia Tuesday, attacking the credibility of a government cooperator who was offered part of another witness' whistleblower payout — a fact Block says Hanamirian Law Firm prosecutors withheld. Read full article » Hermina Law Group Hogan Lovells Investor Sues Foot Locker Over $6B Market Cap Drop Holwell Shuster A Foot Locker Inc. shareholder filed a derivative suit against the company's Hughes Hubbard officers and directors on Tuesday, claiming their actions and misrepresentations led to a nearly $6 billion drop in the company's market James Montgomery capitalization — representing more than half of the company's value — over Jenner & Block the course of eight months in 2017. Read full article » Jones Day Kaplan Hecker Altice Slammed With Stock-Drop Suit After $2.2B IPO Katten Muchin A putative class of investors filed a complaint in New York federal court on Monday alleging that cable television provider Altice USA Inc. misled them in Klee Tuchin the lead-up to the company's $2.2 billion initial public offering before the Kostelanetz & Fink stock plunged 43 percent. Read full article » Lankier Siffert Latham & Watkins Investcorp Slams Hedge Fund's Bid To Keep $100M Suit Alive Levi & Korsinsky Investment adviser Investcorp lambasted Kortright Capital Partners LP in a heated exchange over whether Investcorp can duck the sole remaining claim Lewis Brisbois in a $100 million suit alleging it defaulted on investment promises by pulling Linklaters funds out of Kortright ahead of a deal with another party, according to new Milbank Tweed filings in New York federal court. Read full article » Morvillo Abramowitz EMPLOYMENT Native American Rights Fund O'Melveny & Myers Ex-NFL Security Personnel Shorted On OT, Benefits, Suit Says O'Neill & Borges A group of former National Football League security personnel filed a Paul Hastings proposed class action in a New York federal court Tuesday claiming the Paul Weiss league misclassified them as independent contractors as a way to deny them overtime and benefits. Read full article » Proskauer Rose Ray Quinney COMPETITION Reed Smith Schiff Hardin Firm's Antitrust Claims Survive In Interest Rate Swaps MDL Sepulvado Maldonado A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid to dismiss fintech firm Seward & Kissel trueEX LLC's antitrust claims against 11 banks that allegedly boycotted the firm's interest rate swaps platform and funneled business to an exchange that Shearman & Sterling they operated, finding the allegations mirrored others in the multidistrict Sher Tremonte litigation that were allowed to pass through. Read full article » Simpson Thacher Skadden Metaswitch Says Rival Telecom Co. Tried To Kill Competition Metaswitch Networks Ltd., a telecommunications company, filed an antitrust Steptoe & Johnson LLP complaint in New York federal court Tuesday alleging that another telecom Stites & Harbison intended to eliminate competition among companies that transform landline Sullivan & Cromwell The Chandra Law Firm EFTA00032624 phone networks through serial acquisitions and exclusionary tactics. Read Weiser Law Firm PC full article » White & Case BANKRUPTCY Williams & Connolly Willkie Farr Revised Puerto Rico Sales Tax Plan Cleared For Creditor Vote Winston & Strawn A plan to restructure nearly $18 billion in debt carried by the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Corp., or COFINA, will go to a creditor vote, the judge presiding Wollmuth Maher over the U.S. territory's bankruptcy-like proceedings ruled Tuesday, putting the agency on track to confirm its debt adjustment scheme by mid-January. COMPANIES Read full article » Altice SA Altice USA Provant Creditors File Ch. 11 Clawback Over $2M Transfer Amazon.com Inc. The official committee of unsecured creditors of Provant Health has sued a American Airlines Group Inc. group of company equity owners, claiming they improperly transferred more than $2 million from the company to avoid their guaranty obligations. Read Association on American Indian full article » Affairs BB&T Corporation BANKING BC Partners BNP Paribas OCC Says NY Still Jumping The Gun On Fintech Charter Suit Bank of America Corporation No one has yet applied for or received a fintech charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and that undercuts the latest attempt by New Barclays Investment Bank York's financial services regulator to block the charter in court, counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity office told a Manhattan federal judge. Read full article » Citigroup Inc. Conference of State Bank TAX Supervisors Credit Agricole SA NJ Atty Makes Coy Push For Lead In Danish Tax Fraud MDL Deer Consumer Products Inc. Cryptic concerns about international criminal investigations were not enough Tuesday to secure New Jersey attorney John M. Hanamirian a leadership Defenders of Wildlife role defending hundreds of American pension plans against multidistrict Deutsche Bank AG litigation accusing them of cheating Danish tax authorities, a Manhattan Expedia Inc. federal judge said in court. Read full article » Foot Locker Inc. IMMIGRATION Garda World Security Corp. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Michael Cohen-Linked Atty Found Guilty Of Asylum Fraud HighQ Solutions Ltd. An immigration lawyer linked to President Donald Trump's former attorney Hooper Holmes, Inc Michael Cohen was found guilty of lying on more than 100 asylum Information Security Forum Ltd. applications to immigration authorities and aggravated identity theft following a two-week trial, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New Information Systems Security York said Monday. Read full article » Association Investcorp Bank BSC ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL JPMorgan Chase & Co. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. States, Dem Legislators Back Monument Suits Against Trump Man Group PLC Democratic lawmakers and several states urged a D.C. federal court Monday McMahon & Associates CPAs to hear out challenges by environmental groups and tribes to President Donald Trump's decision to shrink national monuments in Utah, joining a host Morgan Stanley of others questioning Trump's authority under the Antiquities Act. Read full NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. article » NFL Enterprises LLC National Congress of American REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT Indians Siemens Accuses NYC Of 'Reckless Conduct' In $143M Suit National Parks Conservation Association New York City owes a Siemens AG unit at least $143 million for "grossly negligent and reckless conduct" during the construction of a water treatment National Trust for Historic plant in the Bronx, the company said in a state lawsuit filed Monday. Read full Preservation article » Natural Resources Defense Council EFTA00032625 Real Estate Rumors: Palmcorp, Wells And Goldman, Redwood New York Post Palmcorp Development has reportedly landed nearly $14 million in financing PGA TOUR Inc. for a project to build single-family homes in Miami, Wells and Goldman are RBC Capital Markets said to have loaned a combined $156 million for a New York retail and Reed Elsevier residential building, and Redwood Partners has reportedly bought a Long Beach, California, office campus for $60.5 million. Read full article » Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets EXPERT ANALYSIS Siemens AG Sierra Club Emerging Cybersecurity Threats In The Legal Industry SmartHeat Inc. Predicting how the cybersecurity landscape will develop is critical for any Spirit Airlines Inc. organization wanting to mitigate the risk of the inevitable future attack. Michael Hall of HighQ Solutions Ltd. discusses five threats to look out for in TO Securities Inc. the next 12 months. Read full article » The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. LEGAL INDUSTRY The Priceline Group Inc. The Wilderness Society BigLaw Firms Take Cravath's Cue On Holiday Bonuses Travelocity.com LP Shortly after Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's announcement that the firm Vereit Inc. would dole out end-of-year bonuses to associates in line with previous years, a smattering of BigLaw firms pronounced Tuesday that they would follow suit. WeWork LLC Read full article » Wells Fargo & Co. World Anti-Doping Agency Akerman's Ex-CEO Back In Leadership Role After Shakeup Akerman LLP's newest chairman and CEO has ended his term after fewer GOVERNMENT AGENCIES than 10 months, and his predecessor has stepped in to resume his old post, European Union the Florida-based firm announced on Monday. Read full article » Federal Bureau of Investigation Baker McKenzie Is Strongest Brand In Mainland Europe Hopi Tribe Baker McKenzie is the law firm best positioned to take advantage of rising Internal Revenue Service legal spending in Europe, according to a survey released Tuesday by London Navajo Nation research firm Acritas. Read full article » New York State Department of Financial Services Lewis Brisbois Attys Threatened With Jail For Order Breach Office of the Comptroller of the A Dallas judge has threatened to jail a representative of security company Currency GardaWorld and attorneys at Lewis Brisbois for refusing to turn over GPS data for a truck involved in a fatal collision. Read full article » Securities and Exchange Commission Legal Industry Lags In AI, Machine Learning Use U.S. Attorney's Office A recent survey by analytics firm RELX Group found that the legal industry U.S. Department of Justice lags behind other industries in utilizing big data, artificial intelligence and U.S. Supreme Court machine learning in their work, with legal industry executives also much more United States Bankruptcy Court for skeptical of the potential use for Al in their field. Read full article » the Southern District of New York Law Firm Leaders: Schiff Hardin's Marci Eisenstein Ute Indian Tribe Marci Eisenstein, the first woman managing partner of Chicago-based Schiff Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Hardin LLP, spoke to Law360 about the changing business of law, the challenges facing the legal industry and how her firm works to distinguish itself in an increasingly competitive market. 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