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On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Morvillo Abramowitz partner Jeremy H. Temkin will serve as a member of the faculty of  “The New York Tax WhistleBlowers Law: Nuts & Bolts & Ethics of Qui Tam Practice,” a panel sponsored by the CLE Committee of the New York City Bar Association.  Mr. Temkin, who will speak on “Perspectives on the IRS Whistleblower Program,” will be joined by a distinguished panel of attorneys addressing New York's recent extension of the State's False Claim's Act to tax claims, the Taxpayer Protection Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General, and the ethics of qui tam practice. For additional information, or to register for this program, please click here.

Leading litigation firm Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. today announced that it has joined Forbes.com as a contributor, with its own page on Forbes.com entitled The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement (http://blogs.forbes.com/insider/.)  The Insider blog extends the firm's thought leadership platform from traditional print and online publications to interactive social media.

Posts on The Insider blog have tackled how to define fraud under federal criminal law, issues concerning Dodd-Frank's bounty program for whistleblowers, and the unintended consequences of recent Supreme Court rulings relating to private securities litigation.  Morvillo Abramowitz partners Richard Albert, Lawrence Bader, Lawrence Iason, Stephen Juris and Jeremy Temkin will regularly blog on a wide range of topics and the issues the firm is best known for:  white collar defense, securities enforcement and government investigations, internal investigations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities litigation and criminal tax issues.  In addition, on occasion they will be joined by other Morvillo Abramowitz partners.

Forbes.com is the home page for the world's business leaders and is among the most trusted resources for business executives and affluent consumers - connecting them with relevant information, concise analysis, online communities and engaging tools that they need to succeed.  Throughout the business day, Forbes.com publishes thousands of articles from hundreds of editors and contributors across the globe, delivering a consistently rich and compelling experience with all the immediacy, depth and interactivity that the web allows.

Interested readers can subscribe to The Insider here: http://blogs.forbes.com/insider/

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.

After almost nine years of hard fought litigation, on October 28, 2010, the firm obtained a tremendous result fully vindicating its client Kenneth Lipper.  When a hedge fund managed by Mr. Lipper was dissolved in 2002 after it was revealed that the fund’s portfolio manager engaged in a mismarking fraud, Mr. Lipper was named in nearly 20 lawsuits and was accused of committing fraud, acting negligently, and breaching fiduciary duties.  After a 19 day arbitration hearing that concluded in January 2010, a FINRA arbitration panel totally rejected claims brought against Mr. Lipper by the fund’s liquidating trustee and concluded that Mr. Lipper acted appropriately in managing the fund.  In addition, the same FINRA arbitration panel awarded firm clients Mr. Lipper, Lipper & Company, L.P., and Lipper & Company, Inc. more than $15 million in damages, finding that the Trustee was contractually obligated to indemnify them for entirety of the legal fees and expenses they incurred in connection with their successful defense of the 20 actions and investigations arising after the fund’s dissolution in 2002.  On October 28, 2010, the Honorable Shirley Werner Kornreich of the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, New York County issued a 21 page decision confirming the FINRA arbitration award.  The Panel’s decision and Justice Kornreich’s Order represents yet another affirmation of the firm’s long held position that Mr. Lipper acted properly and appropriately in managing Convertibles, that he was a victim of the portfolio manager’s underlying fraud, and that all of the lawsuits brought against him lacked any merit whatsoever.  The Morvillo Abramowitz attorneys representing the Lipper Parties at the FINRA arbitration and the New York state court proceedings included Elkan Abramowitz, Catherine M. Foti, Jeremy H. Temkin, Benjamin S. Fischer, David Austin, David J. Stankiewicz, and Scott Schirick.

On March 6, 2008, Morvillo Abramowitz Principal Jeremy H. Temkin spoke on the Criminal and Regulatory Fallout of the Subprime Meltdown at the Subprime-Backed Securities Litigation Conference. The conference was sponsored by LexisNexis Mealey’s, and was held at the Harvard Club of New York City.