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Subject: KPMG's Middendorf Says He Blew Whistle On PCAOB Leaks

Date: "Cue, 05 Mar 2019 08:36:54 +0000

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

## TOP NEWS

## KPMG's Middendorf Says He Blew Whistle On PCAOB Leaks

A former KPMG partner on trial for an alleged conspiracy to steal inspection plans from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board took the stand in his own defense Monday, telling a Manhattan federal jury he'd acted appropriately, not criminally, upon learning of the scheme.

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## Ex-Trump Associate Hacked Mariah Carey's Ex-Manager: Suit

A former associate of President Donald Trump hacked electronics belonging to Mariah Carey's ex-manager, according to a $1 million suit that was filed in New York federal court Friday shortly before the defendant, a Russian-born businessman, is slated to testify to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project.

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## 7th MoFo Atty Added To $200M Pregnancy Bias Suit

A former New York-based Morrison & Foerster LLP lawyer has become the seventh female attorney to join a $200 million California federal class action accusing the firm of systematically discriminating against pregnant women, claiming she was unlawfully fired for not being adequately "committed" to the firm after twice taking maternity leave.

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## Wesco Says NY Attys Hid Misconduct Claims, Voiding Policy

Wesco Insurance Co. sued Zane & Rudofsky in New York state court on Monday, saying the law firm didn't disclose that it was once on the verge of being sanctioned for misconduct and likely faced a malpractice suit when it purchased a professional liability policy.

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## CONSUMER PROTECTION

## Coffee Seller Hit With False Labeling Suit Over 'Kona' Blends

A consumer hit L & K Coffee Co. LLC with a proposed class action in New York federal court Sunday alleging some of its Magnum Exotics coffee blends are wrongly labeled as "Kona" coffee because the mixtures don't have the same composition as authentic "Kona" coffee.

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## NY Wants Info On Cos. Getting Federal Wage Theft 'Amnesty'

The New York attorney general's office sued the Trump administration Monday, demanding records from the U.S. Department of Labor related to a federal wage theft self-reporting program called Payroll Audit Independent Determination, calling it a "non-enforcement initiative" that gives amnesty to violators.

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## Firm Ordered To Drop Arbitration Bid In $2.3M Atty Fee Fight

The New York federal judge who oversaw the settlement of a case focused on a Citigroup employee retirement plan ordered one of the plaintiff cocounsels on Monday to withdraw a request for court-ordered arbitration to resolve a dispute over $2.3 million in legal fees.

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## SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

## Insys Investors Seek Cert. In Fentanyl Stock Drop Suit

Insys Therapeutics Inc. investors urged a New York federal judge Friday to certify their putative class action accusing the pharmaceutical company of overstating its opioid sprays financial strength, a move that sparked a stock downturn once the accounting problems were revealed.

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## Wiretapped Ex-Asst. DA's Suit Against NYC, Staff Survives

A former Brooklyn assistant district attorney who sued New York City and several city workers who allegedly failed to prevent renegade prosecutor Tara Lenich from wiretapping her has had most of her case survive dismissal, with the court cutting one claim against individual defendants but greenlighting the rest of the suit.

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## Adidas Bribery Convict Contests Schools' Restitution Bids

One of three men convicted of bribing student basketball players to attend Adidas-sponsored schools urged a New York federal judge Monday to deny two of the schools' restitution bids, saying they filed the requests too late and are not entitled to attorney fees.

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## MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

## Nasdaq Matches Euronext's Bid For Norway Exchange

Nasdaq Inc. on Monday increased its offer to buy Norwegian stock exchange Oslo Bors VPS, matching a competing bid from Euronext NV worth 6.8 billion Norwegian krone ($795 million) as the trading venues look to sway shareholders to their respective sides.

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## ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

## EPA Chief Touts Superfund Progress, Slams Enviro Critics

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Monday touted the EPA's success in finalizing cleanups at Superfund sites across the country in 2018, and slammed environmentalists who say too many sites are being written off too quickly.

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## NYC Real Estate Week In Review

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Cole Schotz PC were among more than a dozen law firms that helped with the largest New York City real estate deals that hit public records last week, a group of transactions that included WeWork's $850 million purchase of a Manhattan property.

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## PEOPLE

## Axinn Hires Ex-Manatt Phelps Competition Pro For NY Office

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP has announced the hiring of an attorney who formerly co-chaired Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP's antitrust and competition practice as a partner in its New York office.

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## Pierce Bainbridge Adds Compliance Chair, Fordham Prof

Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP has added as partners a recent Baker McKenzie compliance and investigations group practice chair and a former Ropes & Gray counsel with experience in a wide range of commercial, securities and complex litigation, the firm announced Monday.

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## EXPERT ANALYSIS

## Women In Law Need Equal Treatment, Not Affirmative Action

The sheer number of women entering the legal profession means gender equality is coming, one way or the other. This Women's History Month,

BigLaw firms should reflect on this with the understanding that they dismiss the flight of senior female attorneys from their ranks at their peril, says Tamara Kurtzman, founder of TMK Attorneys PC.

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## LEGAL INDUSTRY

## Ex-Baker McKenzie Atty To Be Deposed Over Tell-All Memo

Baker McKenzie's alleged dirty laundry could soon be aired by a Virginia federal court after a judge on Friday ordered the deposition of a former partner who wrote a mysterious memo regarding alleged misconduct by the firm's attorneys in a Brazilian corruption case tied to one of the world's largest meatpacking companies.

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## Justice Ginsburg Bounces Back With 3 Decisions In 3 Weeks

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has penned three opinions for the high court in the past three weeks, apparently driven to write after missing months of work following cancer surgery in December.

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## Jones Day Takes McGahn Back After White House Stint

Donald McGahn is returning to Jones Day to act as the global law firm's U.S. government regulation practice leader, the firm announced Monday, following a stint as White House counsel that included orchestrating the Trump administration's nomination of two U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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## AG Barr Won't Recuse Himself From Mueller Probe

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