White Collar
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Several parents caught up in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal told a Massachusetts federal court Thursday they want to keep their counsel from Latham & Watkins, Nixon Peabody and Ropes & Gray despite federal prosecutors’ concerns about the firms’ potential conflicts… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Margaret E. Hunter, the wife of U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, pled guilty on Thursday and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in a case in California federal court accusing her and her husband of using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Alan Dershowitz asked a New York federal court on Friday to toss Boies Schiller Flexner LLP from a case in which the firm is representing a woman who says Dershowitz sexually molested her when she was a child, then defamed her by lying about it when she later came forward… Read this piece in its…
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A former California attorney who was disbarred for fleecing his clients pled guilty in Golden State federal court to a criminal charge related to a multiyear scheme in which he allegedly conned several people out of millions of dollars for legal services he never rendered… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A former Societe Generale SA executive who allegedly helped falsify the Paris bank’s submissions to the London Interbank Offered Rate was deemed a fugitive Wednesday by a New York federal court, which said the accused banker can’t fight the case if she stays in France… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 