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Meet Daniel Weiner, the chair of the litigation department at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, who is based in New York. We last checked in with Weiner back in 2021 after he and his team fended off claims against the former vice-chair of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, stemming from the collapse of cryptocurrency mining companies founded by a protégé who pleaded guilty to fraud in 2017. The trial marked the first time a federal jury weighed in on the question of whether particular cryptocurrency assets were securities.