June 28, 2024
LSW Partner Gabi Friedman was invited to the 2024 Annual Conference of the UK Fraud Lawyers Association to participate in a cross-border panel of legal practitioners discussing how prosecutorial authorities do and do not use incentives to encourage subjects to provide information to authorities about corporate fraud. Will the UK or Europe follow the lead...
June 13, 2024
International law firm ranking organization Legal 500 has once again named Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP as a leading firm providing world class service to our clients in the areas of corporate investigations and white collar defense. We are gratified that our work on behalf of our clients has been recognized this year: “Housing a...
June 6, 2024
Chambers and Partners again recognized Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP as a Band 1 firm in the category Litigation: Specialist Firms in White Collar Crime & Government Investigations in New York. We are proud to have received top marks from the colleagues and clients surveyed by Chambers this year. Chambers highlighted reviews stating that LSW...
May 23, 2024
LSW Partner Jillian Berman spoke at the New York City Bar Association’s 2024 White Collar Crime Institute on May 23, 2024. Jillian and four other leading white-collar practitioners discussed “Emerging Issues in Federal Sentencing,” such as recent amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines; restitution, forfeiture, and the process of restoration; loss amount as a driver at sentencing; and...
May 21, 2024
LSW founding partner John S. Siffert received the 2024 Leon Silverman Award from the New York-Downstate State Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers on May 21, 2024. The bi-annual award is presented to “a practicing lawyer or retired judge whose career has exemplified the qualities of ethics and professionalism embodied in the College’s...
May 21, 2024 — Law 360
In a recent Law360 “Expert Analysis” contribution, Jillian B. Berman, John S. Siffert, and Zachary B. Shemtob consider the hurdles facing client and counsel– and suggest strategies– when a non-US person is sentenced by a US court for a white-collar offense. Foreign defendants prosecuted for white collar felonies face disparate treatment at sentencing as compared to similarly...
May 17, 2024
LSW partner Gabrielle Friedman joined a panel of distinguished practitioners in Dublin, Ireland at the 39th Annual Conference of the International Bar Association Banking and Financial Law Section to discuss international perspectives on Whistleblowing and Investigations in Financial Institutions. Regulatory and public scrutiny of financial institutions shows no signs of lessening. Regulators and the public...
March 5, 2024
Gabi Friedman joined a panel of national and international practitioners at the 25th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Womens White Collar Defense Association to discuss the increasingly frequent phenomenon when one lawyer or law firm represents more than one client in a corporate or governmental investigation. Entitled “Navigating Pool Counsel and Joint Defense Agreements”, the...
February 12, 2024 — Law360
In their latest contribution to Law360, LSW partners Michael D. Longyear and John S. Siffert and associate Zachary B. Shemtob analyze a novel SDNY jury instruction on scienter in a recent open market manipulation trial. The defendant in United States v. Phillips was accused of manipulating the forex market by engaging in non-bona fide trades for...
December 12, 2023 — Law360
In their newest contribution to Law360, John S. Siffert and Brandon G. Davis discuss a recent SDNY ruling of great significance for federal criminal cases involving expert witnesses. Judge Jed Rakoff’s decision in United States v. Mrabet puts prosecutors on notice that courts will take seriously the disclosure requirements for expert witnesses in the new...