The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 46 - America’s Incarceration Industry: Exposing Private Prisons
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 42 - AI in Criminal Justice: Opportunity or Opportunity for Misuse?
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Demystifying Sentences for White Collar Crimes: What's Next for SBF
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 31 - An Introspective Look at Bridgegate: Bill Baroni’s Journey
Life After Love Gone Wrong Podcast: Season 3, Episode 5 - Parallel Proceedings: The Intersection of Criminal Law and Family Law
How One Hospice Owner Got Convicted of Healthcare Fraud and How You Can Avoid That Fate
AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - Developments in the Trump Indictments and Recent Supreme Court Issues
Law Brief®: Rich Schoenstein and Marie Pereira Discuss High-Profile Verdicts
Elizabeth Holmes, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 34]
Criminal Appeals from the Federal Public Defender’s Perspective | Matthew Wright | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Law Brief®: Michael Grudberg, Robert Heim and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Theranos Verdict
Extraordinary Writs in Criminal Cases | Michael Falkenberg | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Revisiting McGirt: New Legal Developments Challenge Oklahoma’s Landmark Ruling
Argentina: A Look at the Case of Lázaro Báez - Laundering the Proceeds of Corruption and Tax Fraud
Court of Appeals Reversals from a Criminal Perspective | Jim Huggler | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
From the Trial Bench to the Court of Criminal Appeals | Judge Bert Richardson | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
The Immediate and Lasting Impacts of McGirt: A Novel Ruling for Oklahoma
Stare Decisis and Advocacy in the Court of Criminal Appeals | Judge David Newell | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Dewey Bozella on His Wrongful Conviction
High at Work? Key Considerations for NYS Employers Regarding Legal Adult-Use Marijuana
On July 19, Change Healthcare Ince. filed a breach report with HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. The organization’s breach report to OCR identifies just 500 individuals as...more
As discussed in our September 1, 2021 post, the SEC brought its first “shadow insider trading” case against Matthew Panuwat, a company employee who purchased options in a competitor’s shares shortly after learning his...more
A former hospital worker in Arizona was sentenced to 54 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to two felony counts involving identity theft and health information disclosure. In the plea deal,...more
On May 3, 2023, a jury found Nathaniel Chastain, a former manager of OpenSea (a major NFT marketplace), guilty of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with his attempts to conceal his use of confidential business...more
Yes, in some cases, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In Halet v Luxembourg, the Court overturned an employee whistleblower’s criminal conviction for confidentiality leaks to the press, concluding that the...more
In United States v. Blaszczak, the Second Circuit recently remanded a criminal conviction concerning the misappropriation of confidential information to the District Court in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelly v....more
Recently, JHL Biotech co-founders Racho Jordanov and Rose Lin pled guilty and were convicted of conspiring to steal trade secrets related to Genentech’s cystic fibrosis drug Pulmozyme, and cancer drugs Rituxan, Herceptin, and...more
The Second Circuit yesterday affirmed the insider-trading conviction of a doctor who, in breach of a confidentiality agreement, had traded on nonpublic information about a drug trial in which he had been participating. The...more
Companies often consider trade secrets to be their crown jewels. But in the digital age, where copying and sending files is as easy as one click, protecting trade secrets has become even more challenging. Losing control over...more
The much-ballyhooed legal battle over trade secrets concerning self-driving automobile technology involving Uber took its latest (and perhaps final) turn last week, when engineer Anthony Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months...more
On December 4, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the insider trading conviction, judgment, and order of forfeiture of professional sports gambler Billy Walters, while simultaneously...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the first federal jury criminal conviction for economic espionage and theft of trade secrets under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (EEA), even though the owner of the...more
In what appears to be the first appellate decision since the Supreme Court’s December 2016 ruling in Salman v. United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed an insider-trading conviction based on a...more
In December 2016, the U. S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the closely watched insider trading case Salman v. US, ruling that if someone leaks confidential information to a friend or family member with the goal of...more
Perhaps the most serious charge that could be leveled against a reader of this blog is that of being engaged in or associated with “insider trading.” The allegation alone is enough to derail or end a promising career. ...more
Action Item: Last week, in a unanimous decision in Salman v. U.S., the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s interpretation of insider trading rules, permitting prosecutions even when the insider/tipper did not...more
Salman v. United States, is only the third insider-trading case heard by the United States Supreme Court. In Salman, the Court upheld the insider trading conviction of Bassam Salman, ruling that a tipper’s gift of...more