The hotel chain is challenging the FTC’s role as a data privacy enforcer.
WilmerHale LLP was honored for Practice Group of the Year, with Kirkland & Ellis LLP taking top honors in the category FCPA Trailblazers. Kobre & Kim LLP was honored for Trial Firm of the Year.
Main Justice on May 6 will unveil complete profiles of the 31 firms honored this week at our invitation-only Best FCPA Lawyers & Client Service Awards luncheon, held Tuesday at The Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C.
In addition, Main Justice will release its highly anticipated Global Anti-Corruption Practice Survey, an essential and comprehensive new guidebook that [...]
Mythili Raman will lead the Justice Department’s Criminal Division on an acting basis after Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer departs government on Friday. UPDATED
Nicola Mrazek is still slated to start a prestigious new temporary detail next year.
Although the new authorities aren’t exclusive to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act actions, they pose unique dangers to individuals in anti-bribery cases, lawyers say.
While many companies are adopting outright bans on facilitation payments, such policies do not address demand.
An appeals court panel appears skeptical of Michael Scanlon’s citation of a 2010 Supreme Court ruling.
Lauren Stevens was indicted twice in connection with the company’s response to an off-label marketing investigation. A federal judge threw the case out in May.
The government’s increasingly creative theories of health care fraud and abuse enforcement are raising questions about due process and the limits of criminal liability for corporations and executives. Our panel of industry lawyers and experts explores what it means when prosecutors become de facto regulators of health care and pharmaceutical companies.
“The new restructuring has really given a lot of autonomy to staff working at the regional level,” departing SEC lawyer Luke Cadigan told Just Anti-Corruption in an interview.
Michael Scanlon, a former Abramoff associate, wants the court to drop part of a plea deal reached with the government.
Three spurned plea-bargains, gambled on a jury trial, and lost.
Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York have joined the investigation, as more than a dozen top law firms have been hired to represent executives at the company.
Michael Scanlon asserts that he should not have to compensate Greenberg Traurig.
A review of court transcripts and other documents show hesitation on the part of federal judges in awarding harsh sentences for foreign bribery defendants.
A well-known Republican commentator and one-time aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count in connection with the Jack Abramoff probe after a federal judge questioned the strength of the Justice Department’s case.
ERNST & YOUNG LLP's BRIAN LOUGHMAN ON TRENDS IN GLOBAL FORENSIC ACCOUNTING: Loughman, the Americas leader of Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services, discusses how increased government enforcement, awareness of corruption risk and an emphasis on proactive compliance assessments by corporations is driving double-digit growth in the New York-based practice he leads.
"Former Congressman Renzi’s streak of criminal activity was a betrayal of the public trust and abuse of the political process.” -- Mythili Raman, acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division.
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