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...
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 - Expert Analysis
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...
November 2, 2023
Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP has received a National Tier One ranking in Criminal Defense: White Collar for the fifth year in a row in the 2024 edition of Best Law Firms®. The distinction is earned by few boutique law firms and reflects the continuing national recognition of our work in the area of white...
October 17, 2023
John Siffert joined a panel at the 2023 meeting of the Practising Law Institute’s annual “Trial By Jury” program, in which masters of the bar and the bench come together to provide valuable and useful insights on jury trials. PLI gathers the most experienced and respected state and federal judges, as well as many distinguished...