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From: White Collar Law360 <news(Oaw360.com> To: Subject: Manhattan DA Investigating 'Missing' NYC Real Estate Atty Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:49:35 +0000 Lelaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Monday, April 12, 2021 Law360 TOP NEWS Manhattan DA Investigating 'Missing' NYC Real Estate Atty The Manhattan District Attorney's Office is investigating a city real estate attorney who has allegedly gone missing along with millions in client funds, a source familiar with the probe told Law360. Letter attached I Read full article » Biden Floats $1.8B Boost In Justice Department Funding President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a $1.8 billion discretionary funding increase to the U.S. Department of Justice for the next fiscal year, with more money going to civil rights enforcement, immigration courts and state and local criminal justice reforms. Read full article » Gaetz Lawyers Up With Prominent NYC Defense Team Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida has retained a pair of top-shelf New York defense attorneys amid a federal sex trafficking investigation. Read full article » Former Netflix Exec Faces Bribery Charges As Trial Kicks Off Prosecutors accused a former Netflix executive of illegally receiving kickbacks and stock options from startups in exchange for lucrative contracts with the streaming giant during opening arguments in a bribery trial in California federal court Friday, while defense counsel argued the deals were legitimate and a product of Netflix's "no rules" culture. Read full article » House Slams DOJ's 2nd Bid To Delay McGahn Subpoena Case A top House attorney has rebuked the Biden administration's claim that they've made "sufficient progress" toward a settlement that warrants another postponement of oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in House Democrats' long-running bid to compel testimony from former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn. Letter attached I Read full article » Ulbricht Floats Theory That 2nd Silk Road Plea Offer Existed A federal judge on Friday directed the Manhattan U.S. attorneys office to check if there was a second plea deal offered to Ross Ulbricht, besides one he famously rejected, after the former Silk Road operator's lawyer cited a published report and said it suggests another offer existed. Order attached I Read full article Law360 ;,,Law360 Rising Stars LAW FIRMS Alston & Bird Arnold & Porter Baker Botts Bernstein Litowitz Bracewell LLP Bramnick Law CMBG3 Law Clayman & Rosenberg Conn Kavanaugh Crowell & Moring D'Agostino Levine DLA Piper Davis Polk Eckert Seamans Epstein Becker Green Fenwick & West Foley & Lardner Gibson Dunn Goodwin Procter Govemo Law Firm EFTA00032691 Judge Mulls Trump Appointee's Jail Release Bid In Riot Case A D.C. federal judge seemed hesitant Friday to continue detaining a former Trump U.S. Department of State appointee seeking release from jail pending his trial on charges for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Feds Drop Criminal Charges In Alleged Fintech Fraud Scheme Federal prosecutors on Friday sought to drop wire fraud and securities fraud charges against a former financial planner, noting that his alleged co- conspirator had been pardoned by former President Donald Trump. Motion attached I Read full article » COMPLIANCE Texas Justices Say No Jail For Salon Owner In COVID Fight The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday a Dallas salon owner won't have to go back to jail to finish out a seven-day sentence for operating her business during the statewide coronavirus shutdown in April 2020, finding the temporary restraining order that's the basis of her punishment is invalid. Opinion attached I Read full article » Biden Seeks 21% Boost For EPA Funding President Joe Biden is seeking a 21% budget increase for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and billions more for climate investments, a dramatic reversal from the Trump administration, which consistently sought to gut the agency's funding and largely ignored climate issues. Read full article » SECURITIES Boat-Buying Ponzi Schemer Admits Luring Investors A self-professed venture capitalist from Boston admitted Thursday to duping investors with promises of easy, no-risk profits as part of a Ponzi-like fraud scheme that prosecutors say netted him a powerboat. Read full article » MONEY LAUNDERING Fed Asks Banks For Input On AML Risk Models The Federal Reserve Board and a group of U.S. banking agencies asked the nation's banks on Friday for input on how they use risk models to comply with Bank Secrecy Act regulations, including models used to track and report suspicious activities. 2 documents attached I Read full article » HEALTH Parents Want Wholesaler Sanctioned In Drug Death Suit The parents of a woman who fatally overdosed on an Insys Therapeutics opioid called on a New Jersey federal court Friday to sanction a pharmaceutical wholesaler for allegedly deleting documents relevant to their wrongful-death suit, saying they wasted time and money searching empty hard drives. 2 documents attached I Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS Greenberg Traurig Griesing Law Hawkins Pamell Haynes & Boone Herrick Feinstein Hinckley Allen Hogan Lovells Jackson Lewis P.C. Jenner & Block Jones Day Joseph Saveri Law Firm Kilpatrick Townsend Kirkland & Ellis Kossoff PLLC Latham & Watkins Lewis Brisbois McKool Smith Meltzer Lippe Morgan Lewis Morrison & Foerster Mound Cotton Mukasey Frenchman Paul Weiss Pierce Bainbridge Quinn Emanuel Richards Layton Rimon PC Robins Kaplan Rosenberg & Estis Salvi Schostok Schulte Roth Sheppard Mullin Smith Duggan Stroock & Stroock Thompson Hine Wiggin and Dana Wilmer Hale Wilson Sonsini Wolf Haldenstein Young Conaway COMPANIES Activision Blizzard Inc. American Bar Association Apple Inc. Associated Press Bridgewater Associates LP Brookfield Property Partners LP CS Disco Inc. Cable News Network Inc. EFTA00032692 3 Reasons Securities Fraud Litigation Exposure Fell In Q1 Nessim Mezrahi and Stephen Sigrist at SAR analyze data on securities class actions filed against public companies in the first quarter of 2021, and explore factors that may have contributed to issuers facing their lowest exposure to such claims in years. Read full article » What Associates Should Consider Before Switching Practices The current high demand for midlevel associates provides them a rare opportunity to potentially explore new practice areas, but associates should first ask themselves six questions to begin figuring out why a change sounds appealing, says Stephanie Biderman at Major Lindsey. Read full article » Law360 LEGAL INDUSTRY Holland & Knight, Thompson & Knight In Talks To Combine BigLaw firms Holland & Knight and Thompson & Knight are discussing a possible combination, a move that would form a practice with nearly 1,600 attorneys across 30 offices, firm leaders said Friday. Read full article » NY Fed. Judge Sandra Feuerstein Killed In Fla. Hit-And-Run U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein of the Eastern District of New York was killed on Friday after being fatally struck by a vehicle in a hit and run crash in Florida, authorities said. Read full article » Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Salvi Schostok's Patrick A. Salvi Almost 40 years after founding Salvi Schostok & Pritchard PC, and with more than $1.5 billion in verdicts and settlements under his firm's belt, trial attorney Patrick A. Salvi still loves few things more than the chance to argue for his clients in court. Read full article » Law360's 2021 Legal Industry Editorial Board Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2021 Legal Industry Editorial Advisory Board. Read full article » Bonus Spotlight Baker Botts And MoFo Join Special Bonuses Action Morrison & Foerster LLP and Baker Botts LLP are joining the dozens of major U.S. law firms handing out special bonuses this year, according to reports and details Law360 confirmed on Friday. Read full article » Biden Forms Commission To Study Supreme Court 'Reform' President Joe Biden on Friday followed through on his plan to form an outside commission to study possible reforms of the U.S. Supreme Court amid progressive criticism of the court's conservative majority. The "bipartisan" group includes former federal judges, high court advocates and legal scholars. Read full article » Justices Won't Hear In-Person Args Until At Least Next Term Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. Dynex Capital Inc. Early Warning Services LLC Ernst & Young LLP FedEx Corp. Gallup Inc. Georgetown University Google Inc. Halliburton Co. Harvard University Ironshore Inc. JAMS Inc. Lateral Link Group LegalZoom.com Inc. Linkedln Corp. Major Lindsey & Africa LLC Medley Management Inc. Mobile TeleSystems OJSC Morgan Stanley Mozido LLC NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National LGBT Bar Association Netflix Inc. Oracle Corp. Pacer International, Inc. Papa John's International Inc. PepsiCo Inc. Rochester Drug Cooperative Inc. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Spotify Technology SA State Street Corp. The Allstate Corp. The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The New York Times Co. University of Southern California University of Virginia Virage Capital Management LP Wells Fargo & Co. Wolters Kluwer XPO Logistics Inc. Yahoo! Inc. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chicago Department of Aviation Delaware Court of Chancery EFTA00032693 The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will continue to hear oral arguments by telephone for the remainder of its current term. Read full article » Morgan Lewis Sues Pierce Bainbridge For $436K Unpaid Rent Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has alleged in California state court that Pierce Bainbridge PC and its predecessor firm owe nearly a year's worth of rent for office space in a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles. Read full article » Wolf Haldenstein Sues NY Landlord For Breach Of Contract Class action firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is suing its New York landlord over an alleged breach of contract, claiming that it has failed to make building renovations required under a lease agreement and that the firm has no obligation to pay base rent until those are near completion. Read full article » Gibson Dunn, Recruiter Agree To Arbitrate Hiring Fees Dispute A California judge Friday sent to arbitration Lateral Link Group Inc.'s suit claiming Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP cheated it out of its recruiting commission for the hire of a lateral partner, after the legal recruiting company didn't oppose the law firm's motion. Read full article » Studio Can't Slip Gay Asst.'s Bias Suit Against Atty's Cos. A California judge Friday overruled a bid by an attorney's dance studio to escape a lawsuit brought against the lawyer and her companies by her gay former legal assistant over claims the attorney's namesake firm didn't pay him minimum wage, harassed him and wrongfully fired him after he informed a superior he had HIV. Read full article » McCormick Picked As Bouchard's Del. Chancery Successor Gov. John Carney nominated Vice Chancellor Kathaleen S. McCormick on Friday to become the first woman to lead Delaware's nationally important Chancery Court, replacing Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard, who is slated to retire at the end of April after serving just short of seven years of a 12-year term. Read full article » Departing Attys Taking Files Can Break Law, Mass. Court Says Massachusetts' top court ruled Friday that attorneys who smuggle client files out the door to start a new firm can be held liable for deceptive business practices, even if they were still employed by their old firm at the time. Read full article » LegalZoom Hires Former Google Exec As Chief People Officer LegalZoom announced that it has hired former Google executive Sheily Chhabria Panchal to join the company as its new chief people officer. Read full article » GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week Experts have urged general counsel to lean into innovation following a survey that found significant challenges facing lawyers amid shrinking corporate legal budgets, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a decadelong case that Google made fair use of Oracle's software. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. 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Read full article » Podcast Pro Say: Google Wins 'Copyright Lawsuit Of The Decade' For more than a decade, Google and Oracle have been duking it out over the extent to which individual companies can control an important building block of computer software code, with Google potentially on the hook for billions of dollars in damages and the future of the technology industry seemingly at stake. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening NYC ELITE FULL SERVICE SMALL FIRM SEEKS PARTNERS Schoen Legal Search New York, New York White Collar & Investigations -Associate Attorney - Midlevel Perkins Coie LLP Seattle, Washington Corporate Counsel Amazon Deutschland Serves GmbH Munich, Bayem Elite NYC mid-sized FULL SERVICE law firm seek WHITE COLLAR PARTNER Schoen Legal Search New York, New York Legal Counsel - Digital & Devices Amazon Deutschland Servcs GmbH Berlin, Berlin White Collar Litigation — Environmental Shareholder Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. 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