This article explores recent trends in the use of confidential information on prediction markets, how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates that conduct, and practical considerations for businesses.
The Department of Justice's March 2026 proposed rule, which state bar associations, former grievance attorneys, and political advocates frame as a power grab by the current administration, represents an attempt to re-open a long-ago resolved feud between the DOJ and the states over who regulates the ethical conduct of federal prosecutors.
Trade crimes have emerged as a defining enforcement priority in white collar practice. For defense practitioners, the shift demands more than awareness; it requires retooling case strategies, developing technical fluency in complex regulatory regimes, and rethinking how to challenge the government’s theories of intent and culpability.
This article covers potential landmines for the average elected official or public employee, particularly through the lens of the always developing Open Public Records Act and will provide some tools that municipal attorneys can use to fight back against self-inflicted wounds or AI overreach.
For most of its 136-year history, Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act was more of a threat than a weapon. The provision — which prohibits the willful acquisition or maintenance of monopoly power through anticompetitive conduct — carried demanding proof requirements, required expensive and expansive discovery, and produced so few trial victories that enforcers rarely tested it. When they did, they usually lost. That calculus may be shifting.
Newly-adopted guidelines from the U.S. panel that determines federal sentencing policy could result in lower sentences for those convicted of white collar crimes.
This article discusses two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that suggest courts may be seeking to rein in the use of these financial tools of criminal and civil enforcement.
Every decision to onboard a client, partner, lateral hire, contractor, consultant or expert witness carries risk. Yet despite the increasing complexity of that risk, many firms continue to rely on onboarding practices that have not kept pace with the digital world in which their clients and people operate. The result is a widening gap between how risk actually manifests today and how it is assessed at the point of onboarding.
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has moved at warp speed to deploy its first-ever whistleblower rewards program, marking a significant evolution in the division’s longstanding efforts to detect and prosecute criminal cartel conduct.
Companies and individuals prosecuted for tariff-related offenses are often surprised. In addition to the overall complexity of the regulatory framework, the ambiguity of tariff regulations frequently creates confusion about how to comply. The same confusion that leads to charges of non-compliance, however, can also be the source of an effective defense to those charges. This article examines potential defenses in tariff evasion and non-compliance prosecutions and offers practical guidance for counsel preparing to litigate them.
