Trial Ethics: A Template Can Save Your Life
This blog takes no position on the merits of a motion filed to disqualify Kasowitz from representing plaintiffs in a lawsuit against SAC Capital Advisors and others.
We haven’t even read the motion, but are relying solely on a report from…
Flashback: Can you get me someone’s phone records? Hell no!
Following is an entry from our firm's website originally published in September 2009 and, we think, timely.
Plenty of people - even sophisticated lawyers - sometimes ask us in the course of an investigation: “Can you get me his phone or…
Google and Human Memory
We’ve written before here and here about the limitations of Google. So much of what we think we can find on Google is not there because it was never on the internet, or can disappear from Google’s results from one hour to the next.…
Asset Searches for Grown-Ups
Memo to federal regulators: it’s not enough to impose fines; you have to make sure you collect them if you want people to be afraid of you. The same goes for private litigants thinking of suing to collect money they’re owed. Without…
What British Banks Can Teach Lawyers
What do the woes of a bunch of banks in foreign markets have to say about lawyers and fact investigation? Plenty, because banks and investigation are after the same kind of thing as other types of fact gatherers. Banks get as much information…
Why the Greek Crisis Should Make you Think about Switzerland
One thing we always tell new clients: there is no such thing as a “local” investigation. A Russian guy in L.A. means you could be dealing with a Nevada corporation in addition to Russia and California. An apartment in Miami may be…
The Courage to Investigate
There was a letter in this week's edition of Barron's that said, "Lawyers look backward to precedent. Innovators assiduously look forward and avoid precedent. The two mindsets are antithetical." The letter is about why lawyers at the SEC can't…
Google is STILL Not a Substitute for Thinking
Back in 2011 we wrote that Google is not a substitute for thinking, after Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said in an interview that Google aims to “compute the right answer” to questions typed in by users rather than just provide links.
Today,…
Have Anti-Corruption Campaigns Peaked?
Investigations cost money. The harder it is to find facts, the more you have to spend to figure out what’s going on. Is that why the fight against overseas bribery may be reaching a plateau? I have long believed that most corruption cases…
The Rajaratnam Wiretaps: A New CSI Effect?
Will the costly wiretaps that were essential in convicting Raj Rajaratnam of insider trading lead to a “CSI effect” in white collar crime? After Rajaratnam’s conviction, The Associated Press quoted plenty of lawyers as saying…
