United States: Criminal Law

For this milestone episode, hosts Diana Shaw and Tatiana Sainati revisit the most notorious figures and scandals from the past year of Wicked Coin.

On June 10, 2025, the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a putative securities fraud class action alleging that defendants[1] violated Section 12...

In United States v. Chastain, a split panel of the Second Circuit recently vacated the convictions of a former executive of an NFT marketplace who had been charged with misusing confidential information...

The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (DOJ) has officially launched its first-ever Whistleblower Rewards Program through a memorandum of understanding with...

On May 12, 2025, the Department of Justice Criminal Division announced significant changes to its corporate white-collar criminal enforcement priorities.

On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced revisions to its Criminal Division Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP). (See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series for more information.)

On April 18, 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, holding that only natural persons can be held liable under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA or Act).

The US Federal Judge filed a controversial default judgment for terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York.

In the vacuum created by the absence of comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level, many states and local governments are enacting their own patchwork quilt of laws and regulations mandating the use of E-Verify by certain employers.

On May 2, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion in Massage Heights Franchising, LLC v. Danette Hagman, reversed a Houston Fourteenth Court of Appeals decision in part...

Following an earlier announcement on July 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), on August 5, 2025, issued an Exemptive Relief Order ("Order") to delay for two years, from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2028.

In this episode of "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook," litigation attorney Dan Small examines the challenges of preparing witnesses for trial, emphasizing the importance...