June 10, 2023
The Legal 500 United States 2023 has recognized Lanker Siffert & Wohl LLP for legal excellence in Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals. The 2023 guide recognizes partners Jillian B. Berman, Gabrielle S. Friedman, Helen Gredd, John S. Siffert, Charles T. Spada and Frank H. Wohl as recommended lawyers in the white...
Chambers and Partners 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 comments that LSW “has such versatile...
On May 23, 2023, LSW partner Jillian Berman moderated a fireside chat with U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero at the Women in White Collar Kickoff Reception to the 11th annual New York City Bar Association White Collar Crime Institute. Ms. Berman and Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero discussed current issues involving the CFTC, including enforcement priorities...
February 16, 2023 — Law360
In a contribution to the Law360 Expert Analysis column, John Siffert and Lise Rahdert propose that the low standard for mens rea in price-fixing cases that has been in place for the past 45 years should be reconsidered after two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, as well as the U.S. DOJ’s expansion of its enforcement...
January 31, 2023 — Law360
In a contribution to the Law360 Expert Analysis column, Jillian Berman and Lise Rahdert of LSW along with co-author Julie Withers of Reichman Jorgenson Lehman & Feldberg LLP consider an important hearsay issue about co-conspirator statements, which applies in all conspiracy cases.
January 25, 2023 — Financier Worldwide,
In the interdependent global economy, and with growing cooperation among regulators, it is increasingly likely that international executives will experience a US-style corporate investigation at some point. In the February issue of Financier Worldwide, LSW partner Gabi Friedman and counsel Ramya Kasturi suggest some issues to consider when an executive is asked to provide an...
January 24, 2023 — Law360 -- Expert Analysis
Certain extraditions to the US from the European Union just got harder. In a contribution to the Law360 Expert Analysis column, LSW partner Gabi Friedman explores how a recent judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on double jeopardy could impact US DOJ efforts to extradite certain persons from the European Union. Gabi also...
November 3, 2022
U.S. News & World Report /Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” has awarded Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP a National Tier One placement in Criminal Defense: White Collar for the fourth year in a row. The distinction is earned by few boutique law firms and reflects the continuing national recognition of our work in the area...
October 25, 2022
LSW partner Gabi Friedman participated in a timely CLE program for the American Bar Association addressing the well-known but often misunderstood role of “pool counsel”– when one law firm represents multiple witnesses in a single corporate investigation. Gabi joined Andrea Moseley of Kropf Moseley PLLC in a lively discussion of ethical dilemmas that can confront...
October 20, 2022
At this year’s Trial By Jury continuing legal education program at the Practising Law Institute in New York City, partner Gabi Friedman moderated a panel composed of members of the judiciary and private practice discussing the hot topic: “Attorney Ethics and Social Media Research During Voir Dire.” Issues covered in the wide-ranging discussion included:...