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Directors & Boards Corporate Governance for Thought Leaders January 2012 E-Briefing features Morvillo Abramowitz Partners Jonathan S. Sack, Catherine M. Foti and Robert J. Anello commenting on the attorney-client privilege as one of the critical issues facing directors today, including how it applies to corporations, internal investigation 'work product' with respect to privilege, considerations when privileged materials are inadvertently disclosed to third parties, and applications of privilege outside the United States. To view the entire Q&A click here.

Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. was recognized both as a National Leader in White-Collar Crime and as a Recommended Litigation Firm in New York by the 5th annual edition of Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys. In addition, Morvillo Abramowitz partners Elkan Abramowitz and Robert G. Morvillo were named National Litigation Stars in White-Collar Crime with the publication also naming Mr. Abramowitz, Mr. Morvillo and Robert J. Anello as Local Litigation Stars in New York.

Benchmark is the only publication on the market to focus exclusively on litigation in the U.S. The guide's results culminate a six-month research period during which researchers conduct extensive interviews with litigators and their clients.

On October 13, 2011, Morvillo Abramowitz partners Richard Albert, Robert Anello, and Jeremy Temkin will serve on the faculty of the New York County Lawyers' Association Federal Criminal Practice Institute.  Robert will be a member of panel discussing Initiation of the Proceeding and Richard and Jeremy will each be moderating panels on Pre-Trial Issues.  For more information on this program, please click here.

Morvillo Abramowitz will be co-hosting the upcoming Martindale-Hubbell® Counsel to Counsel SM  forum in New York on September 27, 2011 entitled, "The Perfect Storm:  Managing Investigations, Compliance and Audit's in Today's Tough Market."  Partners  Robert J. Anello and Lisa Prager will be participating in this live, roundtable event focused on government inquiries and other regulatory challenges of interest to general counsel, senior executives, and boards.  More information can be found at  here.

On Wednesday, July 13, 2011, Principal Robert J. Anello was interviewed by Lee Pacchia of BloombergLaw on the News Corp hacking scandal.  Mr. Anello discussed the intricacies of internal investigations, what this event means for others in the media industry, and the possibility of DOJ and SEC investigations.  To view click here.   http://ow.ly/5DWWb

For the eighth year in a row, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., has been recognized by Chambers USA:  Americas Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading litigation firm. Chambers USA 2011 gave its highest ranking, Band 1, to the firm in Litigation: Specialist Firms in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (New York).

The firm was heralded as, "...an excellent litigation firm with a deep bench of attorneys."  Five of the firm's attorneys received individual recognition in Litigation:  White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, the highest number of individuals among all firms in this category.   The five attorneys who received individual recognition were Elkan Abramowitz, Robert Morvillo, Barry Bohrer, Lawrence Iason, and Robert Anello.  In addition, Robert Morvillo received individual recognition in Litigation:  Trial Lawyers (Nationwide).

Chambers USA is a product of Chambers & Partners, publishers of the world’s leading guides to the legal profession. To obtain their results, Chambers engages a team of 100 highly qualified full-time researchers, conducting thousands of interviews with lawyers and their clients worldwide every year.

On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, The Federal Bar Council's Special Committee on Prison Reform will present a panel discussion regarding the current state of federal prisons and supervised release. Topics will include the current conditions of confinement and programs available to federal inmates, the challenges facing the Bureau of Prisons, and the challenges facing and programs available to those on supervised release.

MAGIAB Principals, Robert Anello (Committee Chairman) and Jonathan Sack (Program Coordinator) were instrumental in the organization of this important program, further information for which is available here.

MAGIAB Principal Robert J. Anello was among a group of distinguished authors who were honored on November 15, 2010 by the New York County Lawyers’ Association and Thomson West for their contributions to the recently published Third Edition of Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts.  Mr. Anello authored a chapter on White Collar Crime, which is a new addition to the six-volume treatise.  Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts is widely recognized as a leading resource on procedural and substantive legal issues in New York commercial litigation.  In a review of the treatise published in the New York Law Journal on November 22, 2010, Thomas E. Mercure wrote:

"Given that parallel civil and criminal proceedings in business matters are increasingly common, the chapter on white-collar crime and on the interplay between commercial litigation and criminal proceedings are particularly valuable.  Both chapters are strategically focused, providing practical advice on the issues such as immunity, privileged materials, protective orders and the interplay between civil damages and criminal restitution."

In his chapter, “White Collar Crimes in the New York State System,” Mr. Anello provides an overview of New York criminal statutes and case law relied upon in the prosecution of crimes related to commercial litigation, the investigative bodies which prosecute such white collar crime, the criminal trial process in New York State, and how New York’s system differs from the federal system.

Additional information about the treatise can be found here. 

On Wednesday, November 24, 2010, Principal Robert J. Anello was interviewed on CNBC about the intricacies of determining what insider trading is and what it isn't.

On July 14, 2008, Morvillo Abramowitz Principals Robert J. Anello and Catherine M. Foti received the New York City Bar Association’s 2008 Thurgood Marshall Award for Capital Representation. The award is presented annually in recognition of exemplary service to the cause of justice in the United States, and was awarded to Mr. Anello and Ms. Foti for their pro bono representation of an individual on death row. Morvillo Abramowitz also was recognized for supporting its attorneys in their pro bono work.

On October 30, 2007, Morvillo Abramowitz Principal Robert J. Anello Co-Chaired an ethics program at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York focusing on issues of professional responsibility that affect corporate counsel on a daily basis. Specific topics addressed included “Corporate Miranda” warnings, special problems concerning the representation of employees in internal investigations, the risks associated with waiver of the attorney-client privilege, and new developments regarding the “no contact” rule.