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On February 9, 2012, Morvillo Abramowitz Partner Barry A. Bohrer will be participating in an educational seminar on "CFTC Enforcement Under Dodd-Frank: New Regulations, New Powers", at the Yale Club in New York City. The program will focus on what the CFTC is doing, how it is approaching its mandate, how it coordinates with other federal and state criminal and civil enforcement authorities and how it is dealing with issues of importance to all companies and outside counsel under its jurisdiction. For further information please contact Lisa Colombo lisacolombo@sandpiperpartners.com.

With the start of the federal trial of alleged Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford, Morvillo Abramowitz partner Barry Bohrer, joined by Benjamin Brafman, share trade secrets on finding jurors in "Just One Not-Angry Man:  Jury Strategizing For Fat Cats," New York Magazine, January 29, 2012.

On Thursday, November 17, 2011 Morvillo Abramowitz Partners Barry A. Bohrer and Lisa A. Prager will be participating in a CLE program titled, "Anti-Fraud, FCPA & Whistleblowing: Compliance, Controls & Enforcement." Joining Barry and Lisa will be Charles Connolly, Chief of the Financial Crime and Public Corruption Unit of the United States Attorney's Office in Alexandria, Virginia and Nina Gross, a Director at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. The panel will address the ever-changing laws and practices affecting internal investigations and compliance and recent legal developments in anti-fraud, white-collar, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Dodd-Frank affecting internal controls and investigations. There is no fee to attend this event, which will be held at the University Cub in Washington, D.C. For further information, please click here.

Alison Frankel's ON THE CASE (Thomson Reuters 10/26/2011 "Gupta's best defense? Raj broke 'relationship of trust'") details how Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble director Rajat Gupta's best defense may rely on an SEC rule and a September 2011 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a previous insider trading case, U.S. v. Gansman. The Gansman appeal, argued by Gansman's lead defense lawyer Barry A. Bohrer of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. established new law in this area. Frankel notes that, "... crucially, the appeals court ruled it's appropriate for accused tipsters to argue that they trusted the people who received their inside information not to trade on it." To view the entire article, click here.

On Wednesday September 21, 2011 Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. Partners Barry A. Bohrer and Richard D. Weinberg will take part in a Directors & Boards webinar entitled, "Internal Investigations 2011:  What Directors Need to Know." Staying up-to-date on the laws effecting internal investigations - such as the new Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounty program, regulatory compliance issues, and the need for independence - has become more important today than ever before.  Mr. Bohrer and Mr. Weinberg will be discussing how Directors should deal with the realities of internal investigations today:  The events that trigger them; how to control, conduct and determine their scope; and how to respond to the investigation's findings.  For more information or to register for this free program, please click here.     

On Wednesday August 10, 2011, Principal Barry  A.  Bohrer  was interviewed by Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about recent insider trading investigations, the standards defining criminal versus civil cases, and the sentencing phase for the trial of Galleon Group LLC founder, Raj Rajaratnam.   To view click here.

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.

The Board of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts and Committee for Modern Courts, non-profit organizations dedicated to judicial reform in New York State, announced that Barry A. Bohrer was elected Chair of the Executive Committee of both organizations.  Mr. Bohrer has been a member of Modern Courts’ Board since March 2007.  Founded in 1955, Modern Courts is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, statewide organization dedicated to improving the courts in New York State through advocacy, public education and in-court programming.  Additional information about Modern Courts is available here.

On August 7, 2008, in conjunction with ALM Law Journal Newsletters and Law.com, Morvillo Abramowitz Principals Jonathan S. Sack, Barry A. Bohrer, Stephen M. Juris, and Judith Mogul presented a live CLE “webinar” concerning common issues arising in connection with regulatory and governmental investigations.  The topics discussed included the ethical and statutory obligations of in-house counsel, practical considerations relating to internal investigations and the retention of investigative counsel, and common issues concerning the attorney-client privilege and dealings with governmental authorities.  Information regarding the presentation is available here.

On April 10, 2008, Morvillo, Abramowitz Principals Barry A. Bohrer, Stephen M. Juris, and Jonathan S. Sack conducted a CLE program for JPMorgan Chase concerning issues that commonly arise in the context of governmental investigations relating to the valuation of illiquid securities, and have been raised with increasing frequency as regulators react to investment banks’ writedowns of mortgage-backed securities. Using the recent subprime crisis as a backdrop, Messrs. Bohrer, Juris, and Sack discussed the various types of potential liability under the securities laws, as well as practical considerations concerning the role of corporate counsel and the representation of individual employees.