From: White Collar Law360 <[email protected]> To: Subject: 5 Ways Companies Can Prep For Biden's Anti-Corruption Push Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:35:33 +0000 tlaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Thursday, June 17, 2021 GiFollow Law360 TOP NEWS Analysis 5 Ways Companies Can Prep For Biden's Anti-Corruption Push With President Joe Biden gung-ho about fighting corruption, new anti-money laundering rules looming, and vulnerabilities that were amplified by the pandemic, companies should act now to reexamine and bolster their compliance programs, experts say. Read full article » Robbins Geller Wants To Fight FIFA Suit DQ At 2nd Circ. Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has asked a New York federal judge to give the firm time to appeal his ruling that it committed fraud worthy of disqualification by failing to disclose short positions held by the lead plaintiff in a securities class action stemming from the FIFA corruption scandal, a request the defendant company said comes way too late. 2 documents attached I Read full article 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 » Ex-Goldman Exec's Virus-Delayed 1MDB Trial Set For January Former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng will face trial in January over his purported role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, a New York federal judge said Tuesday, rescheduling the proceeding after a pandemic-related delay. Read full article » ENRC Adviser Regrets Lying In SFO Tipoff About Dechert Atty 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 » 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 ;`',Law360 Rising Stars 2021 LAW FIRMS Aidala Bertuna Akin Gump Arent Fox Arnold & Porter BakerHostetler Ballard Spahr Blackstone Chambers Blank Rome Bracewell LLP Brafman & Associates Cadwalader Wickersham Clarence Dyer Cloth Fair Chambers Clyde & Co Cohen & Gresser Cohen Milstein Conrad & Metlitzky Constantine Cannon Cravath Swaine Crowell & Moring DLA Piper Davis Polk Davis Wright Tremaine EFTA00032732

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GSK Denied Restitution In Trade Secrets Theft Case A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that GlaxoSmithKline LLC is not entitled to recoup fees and costs incurred by outside counsel from DLA Piper as part of a criminal case over trade secrets stolen from the company. Opinion attached I Read full article » ENVIRONMENTAL Feds Say No To Vacating Guilty Plea In $42M Pollution Case Government prosecutors urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to reject a contractor's bid to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing there was no difference or conflict of interest between him and his company when he copped to dumping pollutants in the Susquehanna River during a bridge restoration project. Brief attached I Read full article >> APPELLATE 1st Circ. OKs Hefty Prison Term For Lottery, Emerald Hoaxes The First Circuit on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 13-year prison sentence for an Ohio man who sweet-talked victims into parting with their retirement savings and other investments with colorful schemes about uncut emeralds and vast lottery winnings frozen in a New York bank account. Opinion attached I Read full article » HEALTH Analysis Escobar 5 Years Later: How FCA Earthquake Is Reverberating Five years ago Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a billing dispute tied to one patient's treatment at a Massachusetts clinic and in the process rattled the nation's entire False Claims Act docket with new doctrine. Here, Law360 explores the landmark case's aftermath and finds a litigation landscape that hasn't come close to stabilizing. Opinion attached I Read full article NYC Doc Gets Over 4% Years For Taking Insys Kickbacks A former New York City doctor on Wednesday was sentenced to more than 4% years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from now-defunct drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc. in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to his patients. Read full article » Humana Claims In Telemed RICO Case Advance In Fla. Court A Florida federal judge has ruled that a telemedicine company and several physicians cannot escape Humana's lawsuit accusing them of preying on its policyholders through a complex nationwide scheme that allegedly billed the insurer for millions of dollars' worth of unnecessary prescription creams. Order attached I Read full article » GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS San Antonio Man Admits To Role In Air Force Fraud Scheme A former U.S. Air Force civilian employee has pled guilty to receiving more than $2.3 million in kickbacks and bribes in return for his help in securing Stroock & Stroock Swanson & McNamara Three Raymond Buildings Vorys Sater Wachtell Lipton WilmerHale COMPANIES 1-800 Contacts Inc. 7-Eleven Inc. Amalgamated Transit Union Amazon.com Inc. American Bar Association Apple Inc. Chevron Corp. City National Bank Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. Equal Justice Initiative Facebook Inc. Federation Internationale de Football Association Fortinet Inc. George Washington University Georgetown University Google LLC Grupo Televise SAB Humana Inc. ICAP Illumine Inc. Infinera Corporation International Business Machines Corp. JAMS Inc. Larsen & Toubro Ltd. London Stock Exchange Group PLC Michelin Group National Association for the Advancement of Colored People New York City Bar Association New York State Bar Association PG&E Corp. Porsche QUALCOMM Inc. Royal Bank of Canada SolarWinds Corp. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Universal Health Services Inc. EFTA00032734

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A former billing manager at Dechert LLP said her supervisor created a hostile work environment and set impossibly high standards for her because she was Black, according to a racial discrimination lawsuit she filed against the firm in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday. Read full article » Girardi's Ex-Clients Go After His Wife In State Malpractice Suit Former clients of celebrity trial lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, along with the bankruptcy trustee liquidating the embattled attorney's personal property, have urged a California bankruptcy judge to lift a stay so the ex-clients can continue their collection pursuit against his estranged wife, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Girardi. 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 » NY DAs Urge Gov. Cuomo To Veto Conduct Commission Bill An association that represents New York state prosecutors urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a recently passed bill that would create an oversight body to investigate prosecutorial misconduct complaints, saying that the commission would delay and interfere with attorney discipline. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Mid-Level Litigation Associate Corr Cronin LLP Seattle. Washington Financial Markets Associate (Real Estate Finance) Jones Day Irvine, California NYC ELITE FULL SERVICE SMALL FIRM SEEKS PARTNERS Schoen Legal Search New York, New York Not mite if your firm subscribes? Ask your librarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. However. if you'd gather no receive future emails of ibis son. you may umsubsctibe hen. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas U.S. Patent and Trademark Office U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Uniform Law Commission EFTA00032736

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