By Colby Hamilton | August 11, 2017
It took five years for the government to decide to halt its securities fraud prosecution of international financier Benjamin Wey. But for his attorney, Haynes and Boone partner David Siegal, the problems with the feds' case were baked-in from the start.
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By Carlos Harrison | August 11, 2017
The Miami attorney's practice has moved through phases — a coin seizure, pornography, cartel drug trafficking and white-collar cases.
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By Brian Baxter | August 11, 2017
Nearly three months after former Foley & Mansfield partner and federal prosecutor Beranton Whisenant Jr.'s body was found on a Florida beach, local police have determined how he died.
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By Brian Baxter | August 10, 2017
Japanese auto parts giant Takata Corp., which followed its U.S. unit into a Delaware bankruptcy court this week, revealed in court documents that it is paying nearly $1 million per month in legal fees to an Am Law 100 firm advising it in product liability litigation over faulty air bags.
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By Rebecca Cohen | August 9, 2017
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired intellectual property litigator L. Scott Oliver as a partner in the firm's Silicon Valley office. Oliver, who represented a music publisher in the 2000 suit that led to Napster's collapse, was most recently a partner at K&L Gates.
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By Meghan Tribe | August 9, 2017
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has brought back former litigation partner Andrew Schapiro in New York and Chicago. Schapiro, a former Harvard Law School classmate of President Barack Obama, spent the past three years in Prague as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic.
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By C. Ryan Barber | August 9, 2017
The move away from CFPB cases comes months after the Justice Department, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said it would no longer defend the lawfulness of the CFPB's independent, single-director design.
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By Meghan Tribe | August 8, 2017
Six months after watching its Minneapolis managing partner Alan Kildow decamp for local firm Briggs and Morgan, DLA Piper has hired partner Michael Fisco from Faegre Baker Daniels, where he chaired his now former firm's finance and restructuring practice. As for Kildow, he's still the lucky father of an Olympic gold medalist skier.
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By Andrew Denney | August 8, 2017
On Friday, former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, who faced eight counts in a securities fraud trial that lasted more than a month, was found guilty of three felony counts. But Benjamin Brafman, Shkreli's lead counsel and an attorney known for taking on famous—and, at times, infamous—clients like mob boss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, Sean Combs and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, says he's as proud of the outcome of the Shkreli case as he would be in a case in which his client won total acquittal.
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By Brian Baxter | August 7, 2017
Stephen Wigginton, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois who joined Armstrong Teasdale two years ago, has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol earlier this year. Wigginton was charged in May with fleeing the scene of an accident near the St. Louis suburb of Troy, Illinois.
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