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## 5 Ways Companies Can Prep For Biden's Anti-Corruption Push

With President Joe Biden gung-ho about fighting corruption, new anti-money laundering rules looming, and vulnerabilities that were amplified by the pandemic, companies should act now to reexamine and bolster their compliance programs, experts say.

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## Robbins Geller Wants To Fight FIFA Suit DQ At 2nd Circ.

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has asked a New York federal judge to give the firm time to appeal his ruling that it committed fraud worthy of disqualification by failing to disclose short positions held by the lead plaintiff in a securities class action stemming from the FIFA corruption scandal, a request the defendant company said comes way too late.

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## Greenberg Traurig's NY Bill May Aid Russian Oligarch Client

Greenberg Traurig successfully lobbied for a New York state bill that will make it harder to enforce foreign judgments, which could be worth $700 million or more to a Vladimir Putin-linked Russian oligarch who is a client of the firm. The state senator who sponsored the bill had no idea.

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## Ex-Goldman Exec's Virus-Delayed 1MDB Trial Set For January

Former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng will face trial in January over his purported role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, a New York federal judge said Tuesday, rescheduling the proceeding after a pandemic-related delay.

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## ENRC Adviser Regrets Lying In SFO Tipoff About Dechert Atty

A former ENRC security consultant testified on Wednesday that he regretted lying in an anonymous letter he sent to the Serious Fraud Office accusing a Dechert attorney investigating alleged corruption at the Kazakh mining company of colluding with the agency's officials.

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## NYC Bar Wants Arrest Question On Bar Application Amended

The New York City Bar Association has urged the New York state court system not to ask state bar applicants about their involvement with the



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## Ex-Cognizant Execs Want Cooperator's Bribery Probe Docs

Two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives charged with foreign bribery are seeking to force an Indian conglomerate to hand over information that could help clear their names, arguing that a New Jersey federal court has jurisdiction over the conglomerate because it cooperated with U.S. investigators.

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## Jailed Maxwell Decries 'Raw Sewage,' Nosy Guards

Ghislaine Maxwell cannot defend herself against child sex-trafficking charges with feces raining down in her cell and federal prison guards listening in on her privileged conversations, one of her attorneys told a Manhattan federal judge in a letter Tuesday.

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## Ex-NASA Chief Gets 30 Days For Hiding Ties To China

A New York federal judge on Wednesday hesitantly sentenced a NASA nanotechnology pioneer to 30 days in prison for concealing his ties to the Chinese government, pointing out that defendants with lesser bona fides are routinely locked up for lying to the government.

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## COMPLIANCE

## Ex-City National VP Says He Was Fired For Tax Whistleblowing

A former senior vice president for the Royal Bank of Canada's U.S. subsidiary City National Bank sued his ex-employer in California federal court, claiming he was wrongfully fired because he raised concerns about possible tax fraud and misconduct.

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## SECURITIES

## Trader Pushes Back Against Witness In Illumina Insider Trial

Counsel for a San Diego stock speculator accused of insider trading worked Wednesday to undermine the credibility of a former Illumina Inc. accountant who told a Manhattan jury she tipped him to earnings secrets in exchange for envelopes stuffed with cash.

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## 6 Members Of $1.7M Tech Insider Trading Ring Get Pinned

Three members of an alleged $1.7 million insider trading ring were hit with criminal charges Tuesday, while much of the ring settled claims lobbed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they traded off of material nonpublic information on two technology companies.

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## PUBLIC INTEGRITY

## Former Boston Cop 4th To Admit Stealing OT Pay

A retired Boston cop detailed to the department's evidence warehouse admitted Wednesday to embezzling more than $36,000 from the city by filing for overtime hours she never worked, becoming the fourth officer to plead guilty in the scheme.

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## INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

## GSK Denied Restitution In Trade Secrets Theft Case

A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that GlaxoSmithKline LLC is not entitled to recoup fees and costs incurred by outside counsel from DLA Piper as part of a criminal case over trade secrets stolen from the company.

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## ENVIRONMENTAL

## Feds Say No To Vacating Guilty Plea In $42M Pollution Case

Government prosecutors urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to reject a contractor's bid to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing there was no difference or conflict of interest between him and his company when he copped to dumping pollutants in the Susquehanna River during a bridge restoration project.

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## APPELLATE

## 1st Circ. OKs Hefty Prison Term For Lottery, Emerald Hoaxes

The First Circuit on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 13-year prison sentence for an Ohio man who sweet-talked victims into parting with their retirement savings and other investments with colorful schemes about uncut emeralds and vast lottery winnings frozen in a New York bank account.

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## HEALTH

## Analysis  Analysis

## Escobar 5 Years Later: How FCA Earthquake Is Reverberating

Five years ago Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a billing dispute tied to one patient's treatment at a Massachusetts clinic and in the process rattled the nation's entire False Claims Act docket with new doctrine.

Here, Law360 explores the landmark case's aftermath and finds a litigation landscape that hasn't come close to stabilizing.

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## NYC Doc Gets Over 4% Years For Taking Insys Kickbacks

A former New York City doctor on Wednesday was sentenced to more than 4% years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from now-defunct drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc. in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to his patients.

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## Humana Claims In Telemed RICO Case Advance In Fla. Court

A Florida federal judge has ruled that a telemedicine company and several physicians cannot escape Humana's lawsuit accusing them of preying on its policyholders through a complex nationwide scheme that allegedly billed the insurer for millions of dollars' worth of unnecessary prescription creams.

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## GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

San Antonio Man Admits To Role In Air Force Fraud Scheme A former U.S. Air Force civilian employee has pled guilty to receiving more than $2.3 million in kickbacks and bribes in return for his help in securing

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multimillion-dollar government contracts through a fraud scheme that lasted more than a decade.

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TAX

## Magistrate Assigned To Roger Stone's $2M Tax Case Recuses

A U.S. magistrate judge assigned to Roger Stone's $2 million unpaid tax suit in Florida recused himself from the case Wednesday.

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## Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Fights Antitrust Conviction At 9th Circ.

Former Bumble Bee CEO Chris Lischewski urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to overturn his conviction for his role in an alleged tuna pricefixing conspiracy, arguing that the trial judge gave erroneous instructions that provided jurors with too many details on antitrust law and led to his wrongful conviction.

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## Law Firm Talent Must Reflect Shifting US Demographics

Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks and Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan analyze and project U.S. demographic trends to show that law firms that hope to succeed long-term must recruit, retain and advance female lawyers and lawyers of color, and they outline six steps for meeting these goals.

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## Client Data Stolen From UK Law Firm Gateley In Cyberattack

London law firm Gateley PLC revealed on Wednesday that it has been targeted by a cyberattack that resulted in some of its clients' information being compromised, making it the latest casualty of an online security breach in the legal industry.

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## 7 More Firms Raise Associate Salaries

A host of law firms this week have moved to match Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and raise U.S. associates' starting salaries, and one firm has combined the announcement with a plan to accelerate its promotion track.

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## Federal Claims Judge Confirmed To Md. District Court

A bipartisan Senate vote on Wednesday confirmed a DLA Piper alum to move from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to a lifetime seat on Maryland's federal district court.

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## Cravath Donating $6M Fee To Groups Supporting Civil Rights

Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced on Tuesday it will donate $6 million it earned in attorney fees in pro bono work to five national and local Alabama organizations supporting civil rights and diversity efforts.

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Dechert Hit With Discrimination Suit By Ex-Billing Manager

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A former billing manager at Dechert LLP said her supervisor created a hostile work environment and set impossibly high standards for her because she was Black, according to a racial discrimination lawsuit she filed against the firm in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.

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## Girardi's Ex-Clients Go After His Wife In State Malpractice Suit

Former clients of celebrity trial lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, along with the bankruptcy trustee liquidating the embattled attorney's personal property, have urged a California bankruptcy judge to lift a stay so the ex-clients can continue their collection pursuit against his estranged wife, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Girardi.

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## Analysis

## Khan Goes From Commissioner To Chair In Under 6 Hours

In a single afternoon, Lina Khan was confirmed to the Federal Trade Commission, sworn in, and made its chair in a surprise move that sets up the Big Tech critic for a role she was not anticipated to play and has left observers wondering what to expect.

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## Marshals Need More Staff To Protect Judges, DOJ Report Says

Less than a year after the killing of a New Jersey federal judge's son by an angry male rights attorney, a U.S. Department of Justice audit found that the U.S. Marshals Service is understaffed and not properly equipped to protect the judiciary.

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## Ex-Orrick Atty Now 'Supreme Court Director' At Georgetown

Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection has named former Orrick partner Kelsi Brown Corkran as its first U.S. Supreme Court director, a role in which she will manage the group's litigation strategy for civil rights and criminal justice in the nation's top court.

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## NY DAs Urge Gov. Cuomo To Veto Conduct Commission Bill

An association that represents New York state prosecutors urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a recently passed bill that would create an oversight body to investigate prosecutorial misconduct complaints, saying that the commission would delay and interfere with attorney discipline.

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