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June 03, 2002 |

White-Collar Crime

T wenty-five years after its initial passage, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) 1 remains a viable deterrent to international bribery by United States companies.
14 minute read
November 06, 2012 |

Wilson Sonsini advising Netflix as Icahn circles

The Silicon Valley-based Am Law 100 firm is advising its longtime client Netflix, which adopted a poison pill to ward off a potential takeover bid by activist investor Carl Icahn, who recently bought almost 10 percent of the on-demand streaming media and movie rental company.
4 minute read
July 16, 2013 |

Tax Reform Measure Could Impact Law Firm Accounting Methods

The proposal would require partnerships with annual revenue of $10 million or more to change to the accrual method of accounting, in which partners are taxed on earned income, instead of being taxed on earnings they actually collect.
6 minute read
January 29, 2013 |

After four years of big wins and losses, Breuer to step down at DOJ

As one of the longest-serving leaders of the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division, Lanny Breuer has overseen some of the highest-profile cases in the country's history. On March 1, after nearly four years at the helm, Breuer is planning to leave his post.
8 minute read
April 19, 2012 |

Trayvon, Zimmerman, and Prosecutors in the Media Age

When prosecutors brought charges against George Zimmerman in the slaying of Trayvon Martin, they were dancing to the same tune that many lawyers hear when public pressure intersects with matters of law.
5 minute read
November 13, 2008 |

Master of the pool

Former Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Irwin W. Stolz Jr. 1972-77 is beginning his 21st year of competition in Masters Swimming. A partner in the Athens firm, Winburn, Lewis Stolz, the 78-year-old former judge hold more than 35 Georgia Masters Swimming records. He has won four individual National Championships and was ranked in the top 10 worldwide in five events in 2004.
5 minute read
May 13, 2013 |

Challenging a SIFI Designation

Bradley K. Sabel, a partner at Shearman & Sterling in New York, and Donald N. Lamson, a partner, and Bradford Rossi, an associate, who practice in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, write that a company that has been designated as a systematically important financial institution has the right to contest the determination through a complex appeal process created under Dodd-Frank.
11 minute read
May 17, 2011 |

April industrial production stalls on autos

Industrial production in the U.S. unexpectedly stalled in April, reflecting a drop in automobile output after supplies of parts were disrupted by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
3 minute read
March 21, 2013 |

The March Madness Compliance Risk Assessment Bracket

The NCAA basketball tournament presents a good way to conduct an internal compliance assessment, by creating a compliance risk bracket in the style of the ones used leading up to the Final Four.
4 minute read

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