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...Curbing the EPA’s jurisdiction over certain areas “could lead to a significant restriction of federal power”, said Thomas Saunders, partner at WilmerHale....
...Lloyd Firth, a lawyer at WilmerHale, said: “There is a general consensus that something needs to change in the criminal disclosure exercise as currently conducted by the SFO, particularly in light of recent...
...At WilmerHale, and then at white-shoe Cadwalader, he switched sides to become a criminal defence lawyer....
...He is now representing 16 mostly black defendants in the state seeking to overturn criminal convictions issued by non-unanimous, so-called “Jim Crow” juries....
...It is not just the defendants being judged; much is at stake for the FCA, which is the UK’s main fighter of insider trading....
...The defendants were hopeful that they would avoid the worst: 10 years in a prison on the other side of the Atlantic from home....
...A lawyer for Mr Ramchandani at WilmerHale confirmed the agreement and declined to comment further. Calls and emails to lawyers for Mr Ashton were not immediately returned....
...The deal is the culmination of months of painstaking mediation between the DoJ and the defendants’ legal teams....
...“The fact that they didn’t carry out Hayes’s requests was one of the central issues in dispute, and the jury found in their favour,” said Elly Proudlock, a lawyer at WilmerHale....
...Chris David, a white-collar defence lawyer at WilmerHale in London, said the initial criminal complaint and extradition request were more likely an opening negotiating position from the US Department of...
...Stephen Pollard, a white-collar crime lawyer at WilmerHale, said he was aware of cases where defendants had D&O cover pulled before trial....
...“Where this ends up being tried, how quick-moving it is, how pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant the judges are, can all have a huge impact on the settlement value,” he says....
...The defendants gave their consent for the law firm to withdraw as counsel and Duane Morris took WilmerHale’s place, according to a court filing made in early October....
...Two were voluntarily dropped; two remain pending and two, including those against Harris Associates and Ameriprise, have resulted in summary judgment for defendants in the lower courts with subsequent appeals...
...“It's a substantial step forward …it will lead to more judgments in commercial cases being decided on neutral ground,” said Lester Ross, partner-in-charge at the Beijing office of law firm WilmerHale....
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