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A fraud investigator at JPMorgan Chase who led a class action lawsuit over denied parental leave for fathers has won an agreement to settle the case for $5 million.
Derek…
May 31, 2019 10:56 AM CDT
The ABA Business Law Section released a major report on digital assets and cryptocurrency regulation on Wednesday.
The 353-page document titled “Digital and Digitized Assets: Federal and State Jurisdictional…
Mar 15, 2019 4:45 PM CDT Feb 11, 2019 8:10 AM CST President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, told a Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday that he has been “living in a personal and mental incarceration” since the day he began…
Dec 12, 2018 1:00 PM CST Sep 5, 2018 1:23 PM CDT Aug 21, 2018 4:36 PM CDT Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are considering filing criminal charges by the end of August against Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump. Investigators are reportedly examining whether…
Aug 20, 2018 9:51 AM CDT Judge T.S. Ellis III told jurors that reasonable doubt is a doubt based on reason, and the government is not required to prove guilt beyond “all possible doubt.” Aug 17, 2018 8:03 AM CDT Aug 1, 2018 1:50 PM CDT Jun 25, 2018 3:27 PM CDT May 23, 2018 9:52 AM CDT May 10, 2018 9:15 AM CDT Wells Fargo has agreed to pay a $1 billion penalty for alleged violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller…
Apr 20, 2018 9:56 AM CDT A foreclosure law firm in New York is accused in a federal lawsuit of overbilling Fannie Mae by inflating costs for mortgage-related services offered by its wholly owned affiliates. The…
Mar 29, 2018 2:06 PM CDT Mar 20, 2018 7:30 AM CDTBuilding blockchain expertise into a practice that pays
Blockchain's a buzzword, but what does it mean? In this episode of the Modern Law Library, our guests James A. Cox and Mark W. Rasmussen give a breakdown of what blockchain is, the emerging legal issues the technology is prompting, and why Jones Day thinks that it's an important emerging practice area.
Michael Cohen says he’s free from ‘personal and mental incarceration’ before getting 3-year sentence
$480M settlement with Wells Fargo shareholders OK’d by judge
A San Francisco federal judge late Tuesday granted preliminary approval to a $480 million class action settlement between Wells Fargo and shareholders who alleged they were harmed by the bank’s unauthorized accounts scandal.
Michael Cohen pleads guilty to campaign finance violations, tax and bank fraud
Updated: Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and so-called fixer for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to eight counts of campaign finance violations and bank and tax fraud after surrendering to the FBI on Tuesday.
Michael Cohen reportedly being investigated over more than $20M in loans to his taxi business
Jurors in Paul Manafort trial ask for new definition of reasonable doubt
Amended suit by NRA says New York crackdown has led to financial hardship
The National Rifle Association has filed an amended lawsuit against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that contends the state has caused financial hardship by discouraging banks and insurers from doing business with the organization.
Supreme Court: AmEx ban on merchant incentives for competitor cards doesn’t violate antitrust law
A provision in American Express contracts that banned merchants from steering customers to competitor credit cards with lower merchant fees did not violate antitrust law, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided.
White House says Trump will sign bill rolling back Dodd-Frank banking regulations
Thirty-three Democrats joined all but one Republican in the House on Tuesday to pass a bill rolling back banking regulations passed in 2010 to prevent bank practices that could lead to their collapse.
Cohen seeks to ban Stormy Daniels’ lawyer from court appearance; were bank records illegally leaked?
The lawyer for Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, should not be given permission to appear pro hac vice in court proceedings involving Michael Cohen because of Avenatti’s public release of banking records, Cohen’s lawyers argued in a letter submitted to a Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday.
Wells Fargo to pay $1B penalty for consumer law violations
Foreclosure law firm is accused of overbilling Fannie Mae through affiliates’ ‘exponential markups’
Whistleblower’s $33M award sets an SEC record
Three whistleblowers will receive $83 million for their whistleblowing that led to a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and a $415 million settlement.
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