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From: New York Law360 <news-alt(ciflaw360.com> To: < Subject: Greenberg Traurig's NY Bill May Aid Russian Oligarch Client Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:02:15 +0000 it_aw360 New York NEW YORK Thursday, June 17, 2021 GiFollow Law360 TOP NEWS ;2,Law360 Rising Stars 2021 Greenberg Traurig's NY Bill May Aid Russian Oligarch Client Greenberg Traurig successfully lobbied for a New York state bill that will make it harder to enforce foreign judgments, which could be worth $700 million or more to a Vladimir Putin-linked Russian oligarch who is a client of the firm. The state senator who sponsored the bill had no idea. Letter attached I Read full article » NYC Bar Wants Arrest Question On Bar Application Amended The New York City Bar Association has urged the New York state court system not to ask state bar applicants about their involvement with the juvenile justice system or criminal cases that were sealed, adjourned or dismissed. Read full article » LAW FIRMS NY DAs Urge Gov. Cuomo To Veto Conduct Commission Bill Aidala Bertuna An association that represents New York state prosecutors urged Gov. Akin Gump Andrew Cuomo to veto a recently passed bill that would create an oversight Allen & Overy body to investigate prosecutorial misconduct complaints, saying that the commission would delay and interfere with attorney discipline. Ansell Grimm 3 documents attached I Read full article » Blackstone Chambers Boies Schiller Robbins Geller Wants To Fight FIFA Suit DQ At 2nd Circ. Brafman & Associates Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has asked a New York federal judge to Brown Rudnick give the firm time to appeal his ruling that it committed fraud worthy of Cadwalader Wickersham disqualification by failing to disclose short positions held by the lead plaintiff Carlson Lynch in a securities class action stemming from the FIFA corruption scandal, a Chiesa Shahinian request the defendant company said comes way too late. Cloth Fair Chambers 2 documents attached I Read full article » Clyde & Co New York Opioid Trial Delayed Again As Jury Selection Lags Cohen & Gresser A monumental opioid trial pitting New York state and two local governments Cohen Milstein against a dozen drug companies is being pushed back nearly one week Constantine Cannon because jury selection is taking longer than expected, sources said Cravath Swaine Wednesday. Crowell & Moring 2 documents attached I Read full article » DLA Piper Davis Polk Examiner With Narrow Scope Approved In Purdue Ch. 11 Debevoise & Plimpton A New York bankruptcy judge begrudgingly approved the appointment of an examiner in the Chapter 11 case of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP on Dechert Derek Smith Law Group EFTA00032738 Wednesday, saying he was doing so only because the baseless allegations Dinsmore & Shohl included in the examiner motion needed to be addressed publicly. Erskine Chambers Read full article » Essex Court Chambers Jailed Maxwell Decries 'Raw Sewage,' Nosy Guards Faruqi & Faruqi Ghislaine Maxwell cannot defend herself against child sex-trafficking charges Fine Kaplan with feces raining down in her cell and federal prison guards listening in on her privileged conversations, one of her attorneys told a Manhattan federal Foley Hoag judge in a letter Tuesday. Frankfurt Kumit Letter attached I Read full article » Freshfields Gateley PLC Trader Pushes Back Against Witness In Illumina Insider Trial Gibbons PC Counsel for a San Diego stock speculator accused of insider trading worked Gilbert LLP Wednesday to undermine the credibility of a former Illumina Inc. accountant who told a Manhattan jury she tipped him to earnings secrets in exchange for Girardi & Keese envelopes stuffed with cash. Glancy Prongay Read full article » Goodwin Procter Greenberg Traurig Visa, Mastercard Accused Of Being Cartel In Square Fees Suit Haddon Morgan A proposed class of small businesses that use the Square e-commerce Hausfeld LLP payment platform for transactions launched an antitrust suit against Visa and Mastercard on Wednesday, saying the credit card companies acted as a Hogan Lovells cartel by using their vast market share to keep fees associated with credit Holland & Knight and debit card transactions high. Husch Blackwell Complaint attached Read full article » Iredale & Yoo Jones Day REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT Kaplan Hecker Kirkland & Ellis Real Estate Rumors: American Stock, Wells, Maxim Credit Kramer Levin American Stock Transfer & Trust Co. has reportedly landed a lease extension deal for 17,090 square feet in Manhattan, Wells Fargo is said to be paying Latham & Watkins $95 a square foot for space it's leasing in San Francisco and Maxim Credit Levene Neale Group is said to have loaned $17.5 million for 36 co-op units in Florida. Lowenstein Sandler Read full article » Maples and Calder Margulies Faith CONSUMER PROTECTION Mayer Brown Express Scripts Was Unaware Of CVS Overcharges, Jury Told Milbank LLP An Express Scripts executive told a California federal jury Wednesday that Milberg Coleman the pharmacy benefit manager was unaware CVS Pharmacy Inc. Moses & Singer overcharged insured customers and didn't report its discounted drug prices, Napoli Shkolnik which the consumer classes claim led to higher copays. Norton Rose Read full article » One Essex Court EMPLOYMENT Orrick Herrington Otterbourg PC SEIU Can Exit Fired Handyman's Bias Suit, Judge Says Perkins Coie A Service Employees International Union branch should escape a fired Pomerantz LLP handyman's union bias suit, a New York federal magistrate judge Pritzker Levine recommended Tuesday, finding that the worker hasn't plausibly alleged that the union discriminated against him when it declined to challenge his firing. Quinn Emanuel Report attached Read full article Robbins Geller Roche Freedman SECURITIES Ropes & Gray Rosen Law Firm PA Robbins Geller Nabs $21M For Work On $84M MetLife Deal Scharf Banks A New York federal court awarded Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP $21 Selendy & Gay million for the firm's work securing an $84 million settlement for a class of Shuman Glenn Sidley Austin EFTA00032739 investors who accused MetLife Inc. of misleading them by underreporting life Skadden Arps insurance liabilities. Smith Villazor Order attached I Read full article » Stein Mitchell Investors Push To Keep BitMEX Manipulation Claims Alive Stroock & Stroock Investors who used exchange BitMEX to buy crypto-asset derivatives have Swanson & McNamara asked a New York federal court to keep their allegations of fraudulent Three Raymond Buildings practices and price manipulation in play. Memorandum attached I Read full article » Troutman Pepper Vinson & Elkins Pomerantz To Rep Investors in Pa. Oil Well Suit Wachtell Lipton Pomerantz LLP, with an assist from a local law firm, will represent a proposed Williams & Connolly class of investors in a suit in Pittsburgh federal court alleging natural gas and Winston & Strawn oil company Range Resources Corp. improperly reported the status of wells Wolf Haldenstein it owns and operates in Pennsylvania. Order attached I Read full article » COMPANIES 1-800 Contacts Inc. WHITE COLLAR 7-Eleven Inc. ACI Worldwide, Inc. Ex-Goldman Exec's Virus-Delayed 1MDB Trial Set For January Amalgamated Transit Union Former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng will face trial in January over his purported role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, a Amazon.com Inc. New York federal judge said Tuesday, rescheduling the proceeding after a American Bar Association pandemic-related delay. American Stock Transfer & Trust Read full article » Company LLC Apple Inc. NYC Doc Gets Over 4% Years For Taking Insys Kickbacks Barclays PLC A former New York City doctor on Wednesday was sentenced to more than CVS Health Corp. 4% years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from now-defunct drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc. in exchange for Chevron Corp. prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to his patients. Citigroup Inc. Read full article )> Columbia Care Inc. Deutsche Bank AG Ex-NASA Chief Gets 30 Days For Hiding Ties To China Equal Justice Initiative A New York federal judge on Wednesday hesitantly sentenced a NASA nanotechnology pioneer to 30 days in prison for concealing his ties to the Ethereum GmbH Chinese govemment, pointing out that defendants with lesser bona fides are Express Scripts Holding Co. routinely locked up for lying to the govemment. Facebook Inc. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Federation Internationale de Football Association MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Fordham University George Washington University 5 Firms Guide $600M In IPOs For 2 Energy Transition SPACs Georgetown University Two blank-check companies focused on energy transition and sustainability Google LLC raised a combined $600 million Wednesday in initial public offerings guided by five law firms. Grupo Televisa SAB Read full article » HDR Global Trading Ltd. ICAP 2 Firms Guide Columbia Care's $42M Deal For Colo. Pot Co. Illumina Inc. Cannabis giant Columbia Care Inc. is poised to acquire Denver dispensary JAMS Inc. Medicine Man in a deal steered by Foley Hoag LLP and Husch Blackwell LLP JPMorgan Chase & Co. and valued at $42 million, the companies have announced. Read full article >> London Stock Exchange Group PLC BANKRUPTCY MasterCard Inc. MetLife Inc. NY Retirement Community Seeks $199M Ch. 11 Refinance Mr. Cooper Group Inc. The owner of Long Island retirement community Amsterdam at Harborside is NASDAQ Inc. seeking Chapter 11 protection in a New York bankruptcy court with a EFTA00032740 prenegotiated plan to refinance over $199 million in debt as it deals with a National Association for the failure to attract enough residents. Advancement of Colored People Declaration attached I Read full article » New York City Bar Association BANKING New York State Bar Association New York State Teachers' Nationstar Mortgage Sued Over Unauthorized Payment Glitch Retirement System Mortgage servicer Nationstar Mortgage LLC faces a proposed class action in New York University New York federal court accusing the company of improperly debiting PG&E Corp. borrowers' accounts multiple times in a single month. Purdue Pharma LP Complaint attached I Read full article » QUALCOMM Inc. PEOPLE RBC Capital Markets Range Resources Corp. Chiesa Shahinian Adds Experienced IP Attorney In NY Service Employees International Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC continued its 2021 expansion, adding an Union attorney with nearly two decades of experience working on a variety of Space Exploration Technologies intellectual property and trade secret suits as a New York-based member, the Corp. firm announced. Temple University Read full article » The Green Solution LLC The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Winston & Strawn Grabs Partner From Troutman Pepper Rights Under Law Winston & Strawn LLP continued to expand the firm's tax practice with the addition of a partner from Troutman Pepper who will work out of its New York United Airlines Holdings Inc. office, Winston announced Wednesday. Visa Inc. Read full article » Walgreens Co. Wells Fargo & Co. EXPERT ANALYSIS Zeughauser Group LLC Law Firm Talent Must Reflect Shifting US Demographics GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks and Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan Commodity Futures Trading analyze and project U.S. demographic trends to show that law firms that Commission hope to succeed long-term must recruit, retain and advance female lawyers Consumer Financial Protection and lawyers of color, and they outline six steps for meeting these goals. Bureau Read full article » Economics and Statistics Administration LEGAL INDUSTRY European Union Executive Office of the President Client Data Stolen From UK Law Firm Gateley In Cyberattack Federal Trade Commission London law firm Gateley PLC revealed on Wednesday that it has been targeted by a cyberattack that resulted in some of its clients' information Food and Drug Administration being compromised, making it the latest casualty of an online security breach Information Commissioner's Office in the legal industry. National Aeronautics and Space Read full article » Administration New York Attorney General's Office 7 More Firms Raise Associate Salaries Serious Fraud Office A host of law firms this week have moved to match Davis Polk & Wardwell U.S. Air Force LLP and raise U.S. associates' starting salaries, and one firm has combined the announcement with a plan to accelerate its promotion track. U.S. Attorney's Office Read full article » U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York Federal Claims Judge Confirmed To Md. District Court U.S. Attorney's Office for the A bipartisan Senate vote on Wednesday confirmed a DLA Piper alum to Southern District of New York move from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to a lifetime seat on Maryland's U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the federal district court. Eastern District of New York Read full article » U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Cravath Donating $6M Fee To Groups Supporting Civil Rights U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Department of Commerce EFTA00032741 Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced on Tuesday it will donate $6 million U.S. Department of Justice it earned in attorney fees in pro bono work to five national and local Alabama U.S. District Court for the Eastern organizations supporting civil rights and diversity efforts. District of New York Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dechert Hit With Discrimination Suit By Ex-Billing Manager District of Pennsylvania A former billing manager at Dechert LLP said her supervisor created a hostile U.S. District Court for the Northern work environment and set impossibly high standards for her because she District of California was Black, according to a racial discrimination lawsuit she filed against the U.S. District Court for the Northern firm in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday. District of New York Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Girardi's Ex-Clients Go After His Wife In State Malpractice Suit Former clients of celebrity trial lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, along with the U.S. District Court for the Western bankruptcy trustee liquidating the embattled attorney's personal property, District of Pennsylvania have urged a California bankruptcy judge to lift a stay so the ex-clients can U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continue their collection pursuit against his estranged wife, "Real Housewives U.S. Securities and Exchange of Beverly Hills" star Erika Girardi. Commission Read full article » U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court ENRC Adviser Regrets Lying In SFO Tipoff About Dechert Atty U.S. Uniform Law Commission A former ENRC security consultant testified on Wednesday that he regretted lying in an anonymous letter he sent to the Serious Fraud Office accusing a Dechert attorney investigating alleged corruption at the Kazakh mining company of colluding with the agency's officials. Read full article » Analysis Khan Goes From Commissioner To Chair In Under 6 Hours In a single afternoon, Lina Khan was confirmed to the Federal Trade Commission, sworn in, and made its chair in a surprise move that sets up the Big Tech critic for a role she was not anticipated to play and has left observers wondering what to expect. Read full article » Marshals Need More Staff To Protect Judges, DOJ Report Says Less than a year after the killing of a New Jersey federal judge's son by an angry male rights attorney, a U.S. Department of Justice audit found that the U.S. Marshals Service is understaffed and not properly equipped to protect the judiciary. Read full article » Ex-Orrick Atty Now 'Supreme Court Director' At Georgetown Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection has named former Orrick partner Kelsi Brown Corkran as its first U.S. Supreme Court director, a role in which she will manage the group's litigation strategy for civil rights and criminal justice in the nation's top court. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Not mite if your firm subsaibes? Ask your libtarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. However. if you'd gather no receive future emails of ibis sorb you may unsubsetibe here. Please DO NOT teply to this email. For customer support inquiries. please call + l-646-781-71CO or visit our Contact Us page. EFTA00032742 Ptivacy Policy I Cookie Policy Law360 Pon(olio Media, Inc, III West 1911iStreet. Sth Floor. New York. NY [Dalt EFTA00032743