From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: Cohen Nixes Congressional Hearing Over Trump 'Threats' Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:25:04 +0000 \pLaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Thursday, January 24, 2019 \e:Follow Law360 TOP NEWS Cohen Nixes Congressional Hearing Over Trump ‘Threats’ Michael Cohen will not appear at a scheduled hearing before a House panel next month in light of “ongoing threats against his family" from President Donald Trump, Cohen's lawyer said Wednesday, casting uncertainty over the longtime Trump attorney's testimony about crimes he committed in dealings with the president. Read full article » Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Team Owners Launch Parole Reform Group Music mogul Jay-Z, rapper Meek Mill, and several professional sports team owners and asset managers on Wednesday launched a $50 million criminal justice reform effort aimed at revamping laws to reduce the number of people on parole or probation. Read full article » Ex-Rock Capital Trader Gets 5 Years For False Profits Scheme A former Rock Capital Markets LLC trader accused of creating false profits and causing his firm to fold after losing over $13.7 million has been sentenced by an Illinois federal judge Wednesday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to one wire fraud charge last year. Read full article » Manafort Disputes Plea Breach, Ordered To Attend Hearing Former Donald Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Wednesday his faulty memory should not be equated to a plea agreement- violating lie as a D.C. federal judge ruled that he must show up for his Friday hearing rather than let his attorneys handle it. Read full article » Weinstein Hires Casey Anthony Atty, Harvard Law Professor Aweek after announcing a split from his former criminal defense lawyer, Harvey Weinstein has a new legal team consisting of Jose Baez, who led Casey Anthony's murder trial acquittal, and Harvard Law School professor Ronald S. Sullivan, Baez confirmed Wednesday. Read full article » COMPLIANCE Deutsche Bank Facing Global Scrutiny Over Danske Scandal Deutsche Bank AG said Wednesday that it has received requests for information from law enforcement agencies and regulators across the globe looking into an alleged multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme at Danish lender Danske Bank. Read full article » SECURITIES Ex-Barclays Execs Accused Of Duping Shareholders At Trial l»2Law360 Pro Say Podcast Listen to our new podcast here LAW FIRMS Akin Gump Arent Fox Brafman & Associates Brownstein Hyatt Buchalter PC Cloth Fair Chambers Covington & Burling DLA Piper Desai Law Firm PC Dinsmore & Shohl Epstein Becker Green Essex Court Chambers Farella Braun Frost Brown Todd Gibson Dunn Gupta Wessler Hoagland Longo Hogan Lovells Holland & Knight Irell & Manella Jomarron Lopez K&L Gates Kasowitz Benson EFTA00032577

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Four former Barclays PLC directors deceived the bank's shareholders by failing to declare additional fees they paid Qatari investors at the height of the financial crisis and by using other agreements as a “smokescreen” to cover their tracks, prosecutors told a London jury on Wednesday. Read full article » ‘Shell Factory’ Atty Sees Sentence Cut For Helping Feds An attorney rounded up in the massive prosecution of a group that created fake shell companies in a pump-and-dump scheme had his three-year sentence trimmed by two years Tuesday because he assisted the government in taking down his cohorts. Read full article » DC Circ. Judges Criticize Advisory Firm's Ties To Fund Broker Two members of a D.C. Circuit panel on Wednesday derided a Houston- based investment advisory firm that recommended investments without fully disclosing it was being paid by the broker offering them. Read full article » CYBERSECURITY House Passes Bill Inviting Researchers To Hack State Dept. The U.S. House of Representatives has resoundingly passed a bipartisan bill that would direct the State Department to invite security researchers to expose flaws in its digital defenses in exchange for rewards. Read full article » LEGAL ETHICS Beverly Hills Atty Accused Of Peddling Pills On Craigslist A Beverly Hills attorney who has a “long history" of selling drugs on the internet, including black tar heroin and methadone, was arrested for allegedly selling $1,200 in oxycodone pills on Craigslist, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Read full article » NJ Atty Accused Of Raping Gov.'s Staffer Won't Face Charges Asecond prosecutor's office in New Jersey on Wednesday said it will not pursue criminal charges against an attorney accused of raping a staffer in Gov. Phil Murphy's administration when they were working on the governor's campaign, citing "a lack of credible evidence and corroboration that a crime was committed.” Read full article » HEALTH Ex-Hospital Director Pleads Guilty In $1B Health Fraud Case A former Miami-area hospital director pled guilty Wednesday in Florida federal court to conspiring to defraud the United States and paying and receiving health care kickbacks as part of a $1 billion health care fraud scheme. Read full article » 5 NY Doctors Denounce DOJ Charges Of Insys Kickbacks Five New York doctors on Tuesday assailed a U.S. Department of Justice indictment accusing them of pocketing kickbacks to prescribe a fentanyl painkiller sold by Insys Therapeutics Inc., saying there are no concrete signs of an illicit quid pro quo. Read full article » SPORTS Grassley Seeks Answers From USOC After Nassar Report Sen. Chuck Grassley has asked the U.S. Olympic Committee to outline the steps it's taking to improve its culture and protect athletes after the release of a scathing December report about sexual abuse in the Olympic community, Kennedys CMK Kennedys Law LLP King & Spalding Knobbe Martens Ogletree Deakins Parker Bunt Paul Hastings Quinn Emanuel Reed Smith Reid Collins Samuel J. Rabin Jr. PA Sanford Heisler Sharp Snell & Wilmer Squire Patton Boggs Stearns Weaver Steptoe & Johnson LLP The Hoffinger Firm Ulmer & Berne Venable LLP White & Case Williams & Jensen Winston & Strawn COMPANIES Aliph Inc. American Arbitration Association American Bar Association Apple Inc. Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society Ltd. Barclays Investment Bank Barclays PLC BlackBerry Ltd. Brooklyn Nets Danske Bank Deutsche Bank AG DowDuPont Inc. Ferrari SpA Fitbit Inc. Fitch Ratings Ltd. Genentech Inc. Google Inc. Home Depot Inc. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. LinkedIn Corp. Marriott International Inc. Moody's Corporation NAVEX Global Inc. NFL Enterprises LLC the lawmaker said Wednesday. Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS NYU Langone Medical Center National Consumer Law Center EFTA00032578

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3 Trends In Criminal Trade Secret Prosecution While white collar filings are significantly down nationwide, the prosecutorial appetite for bringing criminal trade secret cases appears voracious, even where no foreign actor or national security concern is involved, say Jessica Nall and Janice Reicher of Farella Braun & Martel LLP. Read full article » DOJ's Wire Act Opinion Is A Game Changer The U.S. Department of Justice's updated guidance on the Wire Act contains a fundamental distinction between civil risk and criminal risk, and this will slow down the proliferation of gambling-related online offerings in the internet gambling community, says Tim Lowry of DLA Piper. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY 10 Firms That Made The Most Money Lobbying In 2018 Ten law firms bested the rest of the sector and raked in millions of dollars in revenue from federal lobbying clients in 2018, with year-end figures reported to the government showing strong results across the industry even though it was an election year. Read full article » GOP Mulling ‘Nuclear Option’ To Speed Judicial Nominations Republicans could again turn to the “nuclear option” to change Senate rules and advance President Donald Trump's nominees, one senator said this week, cutting down the time the Senate takes on judicial and other nominees. Read full article » Ex-Snell & Wilmer Chair John Bouma Fatally Struck By Cars John J. Bouma, who led Snell & Wilmer LLP for more than three decades, guiding it from a single Arizona office to a national force, was fatally hit by cars Tuesday night, Phoenix police confirm. He was 82. Read full article » Arent Fox Sues Former IP Partner Over Move To Kasowitz Arent Fox LLP filed suit Tuesday in D.C. federal court against a former intellectual property partner in its New York office, alleging that he agreed to pay over $90,000 in order to make an immediate exit to Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP and then failed to pay up. Read full article » Bear Stearns Hits Reed Smith With $500M Malpractice Suit Reed Smith LLP bungled its representation of two now-defunct Bear Stearns investment funds that had sued ratings agencies for overvaluing residential mortgage-backed securities they bought, the funds claimed in a suit filed Tuesday in New York state court seeking more than half a billion dollars in damages. Read full article » Gilstrap 'Offended' By Gamesmanship Of Irell, Winston Attys U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has said he's "offended" by how Irell & Manella LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP have handled the opening stages of an infringement case involving USAA electronic check patents asserted against Wells Fargo, finding the firms' legal maneuvers demonstrate a "clear lack of respect" for his court. Read full article » Feature The Legal Threat Giving Compliance Officers Nightmares Compliance officers across industries all name the same concern when asked what keeps them up at night. Here, Law360 looks at that issue and what compliance officers can do to mitigate the risk. Read full article » Ogletree Looks To Gut Ex-Shareholder's Sex Bias Suit Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC wants a California federal court to kick the bulk of a former firm shareholder's gender discrimination lawsuit to New England Patriots New York Post Philadelphia 76ers Promontory Financial Group LLC Ranbaxy S&P Global Inc. State Bar of Arizona State Bar of California Sun Pharmaceutical Target Corp. Twitter Inc. Uber Technologies Inc. United Microelectronics Corporation United Services Automobile Association United States Olympic Committee Voya Financial Inc. Wells Fargo & Co. Yahoo! Inc. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES California Supreme Court Commodity Futures Trading Commission Drug Enforcement Administration European Union Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission Financial Conduct Authority Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Securities and Exchange Commission Serious Fraud Office U.S. Attorney's Office U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Justice U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court EFTA00032579

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arbitration, saying she was bound by an arbitration pact even though she didn't sign it. Read full article » Retired Judges Urge Fed. Circ. To Make PACER Free Seven retired federal judges, including ex-Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner, told the Federal Circuit that the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system should be free, according to an amicus brief filed Wednesday in an appeal over a class action challenging the government's fees. Read full article » UK Watchdog Drops GCs From Manager Accountability Plan The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority said Wednesday that it had dropped plans to hold the heads of legal departments at banks and insurance firms responsible for ignoring misconduct, saying the proposed rule would hamper lawyers from giving independent legal advice. Read full article » Interview Law Firm Leaders: Kennedys CMK's Meg Catalano Meg Catalano, managing partner of the U.S. arm of British commercial firm Kennedys Law LLP, spoke to Law360 recently about the ramifications of the transatlantic tie-up, how she balances her practice and managerial duties, and where she sees the business of law evolving. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Insurance Coverage Litigation Associate Insurance Coverage Litigation Associate (4-8 yrs) (4-8 yrs) Gordon & Rees Gordon & Rees San Francisco, Oakland, California Sacramento , California Sports partner seeks top mid level litigation assoc/NYC Schoen Legal Search New York, New York Not sure if your firm subscribes? Ask your librarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. However, if you'd rather not receive future emails of this sort, you may unsubscribe here. Please DO NOT reply to this email. For customer support inquiries, please call +1-646-783-7 100 or visit our Contact Us page. Privacy Policy Law360 | Portfolio Media, Inc, 111 West 19th Street, Sth Floor, New York, NY LOOIL EFTA00032580