August 15, 2024
Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP is proud to have seven lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers in America® and two lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America® 2025 Editions. Congratulations to each on this hard-earned recognition of your work on behalf of our clients in the criminal defense and complex business litigation arenas....
August 14, 2024
Partner Helen Gredd has again been ranked by Benchmark Litigation among the Top 250 Women Litigators in the Northeast United States for her inspiring achievements in the commercial litigation and securities law arenas. The Benchmark Litigation guide focuses on the leading women litigators from across the country who have secured their place by participating in some of the most...
July 30, 2024 — Dispute Resolution Journal, Sept-Oct 2024 (Vol. 78, No. 3)
LSW’s John Siffert and Brett Mead co-authored with Steven Skulnik the lead article in the upcoming issue of Dispute Resolution Journal, entitled “Application of Mandatory Law in U.S. Arbitration.” It describes how international and domestic arbitral claims arising under mandatory laws are treated in jurisdictions other than where the claims arise. The authors then analyze...
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 - Expert Analysis
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...