8/26/2025 11:18:48 AM The White Collar Appeal: Seventh Circuit Holds Spoofing is Fraud By Daniel Koffmann “Spoofing,” or the practice of submitting buy or sell orders to trading platforms with the intent to withdraw them prior to execution, is...
8/23/2025 2:17:30 AM The $110 Billion Crypto Treasury Boom: Litigation Risks on the Horizon By Emily Kapur The corporate crypto treasury trend continues to boom, and with it the litigation risks. As noted in a recent Forbes article, 152...
8/20/2025 1:32:28 PM The Brazilian Supreme Court's August 18 Ruling Presents Challenges To Brazilian Entities And Litigants By Mario Gazzola Julia Teixeira Rodrigues On August 18, 2025, the Brazilian Supreme Court issued a ruling holding that any foreign law, court decision, administrative act, or...
8/18/2025 6:44:48 PM The White Collar Appeal: Seventh Circuit Endorses Remote Video Depositions for Unavailable Foreign Witnesses By Daniel Koffmann Marielle Greenblatt In Baldwin, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the wire fraud conviction of a Ponzi scheme defendant, holding that the use of a remote video...
8/11/2025 11:37:45 AM Patent Trial and Appeal Board Issues New Guidance Regarding Use of "General Knowledge" in IPR Petitions By Nicholas LoCastro Catherine Mattes On July 31st, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") issued a three-page memorandum stating that it will “enforce and no longer waive...
8/6/2025 11:46:35 PM SEC Offers Clarity on Liquid Staking: A Step Toward Smarter Crypto Regulation By Kurt Wolfe Michael Liftik Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins has pledged to bring greater transparency to digital asset regulation. As...
8/6/2025 10:53:18 PM The White Collar Appeal: DC Circuit Creates a New Standard for Bribery Prosecutions By Daniel Koffmann Michael Bloom Last Friday, in United States v. Paitsel, the DC Circuit addressed the official-duty prong of the federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. §...
8/4/2025 7:20:18 PM The White Collar Appeal: Ciminelli Continues to Confound in a Trio of Second Circuit Decisions By Daniel Koffmann Kiersten Whitfield The Second Circuit is still sorting out the boundaries of wire fraud after the 2023 decision in Ciminelli v. United States, in which the...
7/31/2025 12:10:44 AM The White Collar Appeal: Like Beauty, “Sophisticated Means” is in the Eye of the Beholder By Daniel Koffmann Marielle Greenblatt Two recent decisions from the Second Circuit and the Fourth Circuit illustrate just how subjective the application of the...
7/29/2025 11:36:24 PM The White Collar Appeal: Second Circuit gives “substantial assistance” to banks seeking to avoid liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act By Daniel Koffmann Michael Bloom Last week, the Second Circuit set an awfully high standard for banks to face liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act—so high, in fact,...
7/29/2025 8:45:53 PM The White Collar Appeal: D.C. Circuit holds that, when calculating loss under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, sometimes a market disclosure isn’t a market disclosure By Daniel Koffmann Kiersten Whitfield On Friday, July 25, 2025, the D.C. Circuit issued a decision that will provide prosecutors an argument to extend the period in which a...
7/25/2025 7:37:21 PM Delaware Court Finds No Induced Infringement in Wegovy® Patent Dispute at Pleading Stage By Catherine Mattes Nicholas LoCastro In a decision issued on July 22, 2025, Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware held that...