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Service Provider Management, Not Selection, Determines Success

Rob Mattern

Many law firms are fixated on insuring they choose the right service provider. Granted the right partner is important, however it’s not the service provider you select; it’s how that service provider is managed that determines success.

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High Court Expands the Reach of the Wire Fraud Statute (Part III)

Harry Sandick & Caitlyn Wigler

On May 22, 2025, the Supreme Court endorsed the “fraudulent inducement” theory of wire fraud in Kousisis v. United States, departing from its recent trend of narrowing the scope of broadly worded criminal statutes, including the wire fraud statute. This decision appears to allow the government to obtain a conviction even where the defendant did not intend to cause economic harm to their counterparty, so long as the defendant made material false statements in order to obtain property from another.

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