Second Biggest Ponzi Schemer is Now a Federal Guest – for 110 Years Convicted Ponzi schemer, Robert Stanford, is still in prison. Don’t hold a seat at the table for him; it will be awhile before his social calendar allows him to dine out. In what was a vindication for the Federal government, Stanford’s financial […]
READ MOREI’m Your Pusher: Purdue Pharma Cops to Oxycontin Charges
Today is clearly not a good day at Purdue Pharma, which is being pilloried in the press and in the blogosphere after pleading to charges of “misleading] regulators, doctors and patients about oxycontin’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused.” As a PR issue, it’s a mess. On the other hand, the $600 million […]
READ MORESympathy for the Devil: Hug a New York City Defense Attorney Today
New York City defense attorneys are often critiqued—sometimes ridiculed—for just doing our job. Those who want to “hang ‘em in the streets” criticize us for setting criminals loose on the population. The people we defend can’t believe we charge for our services. Cops always try to prevent people from talking to us, and television shows […]
READ MORESupervision Requirements Have Chilling Effect on Medicare Participation
Medicare billing can be a perilous, low-return, high-risk endeavor, with rules that sometimes seem less than logical and can readily trap the uninformed. Take, for example, the question of whether Medicare will reimburse post-doctoral clinical psychologists for psychotherapy services. Psychotherapy is a reimbursed service when it is provided by clinical psychologists. These “Psy. D’s,” as […]
READ MORECA 4th on Return of Property in Medical Marijuana Case
A big hat tip to Greg at the California Blog of Appeal who notes an important medical marijuana return of property case:City of Garden Grove v. Superior Court, G036250. In a nut shell, as Greg says, the Court of Appeal denied a writ petition by the City of Garden Grove (joined by 4 law enforcement associations […]
READ MOREA Breath of Fresh Air: The Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2012
Just like the freakishly warm weather that descended on the east coast recently, an unexpected breath of fresh air has blown in from, of all places, Washington. Apparently timed to coincide with the release of the report regarding the 2008 Stevens trial, Senator Lisa Murkowski on March 15th introduced the Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence […]
READ MORENew York Criminal Attorney Talks About Your Rights
New York City Criminal Attorneys (mostly the court-appointed ones that don’t really want to handle your case) sometimes like to pretend that the justice system works very differently than it does–specifically how it does on television. Police officers may lie to you in order to get you to confess. This is legal. That is why I […]
READ MOREA New York City Criminal Attorney Talks Drunk Driving
As a New York City defense attorney I handle a lot of DUIs, DWIs, and DWAIs. There seems to be a false impression that the state of New York doesn’t treat drunk driving like a crime, that things are the way they were twenty or thirty years ago. This is just not the case. Depending […]
READ MOREFormal Opinion 2011-2: THIRD PARTY LITIGATION FINANCING
TOPIC: Third-party litigation financing DIGEST: It is not unethical per se for a lawyer to represent a client who enters into a non-recourse litigation financing arrangement with a third party lender. Nevertheless, when clients contemplate or enter into such arrangements, lawyers must be cognizant of the various ethical issues that may arise and should advise […]
READ MORELaw Firm Leaves Duke Lacross Defense
A Washington DC legal team has left the group of lawyers representing Duke University in two lawsuits which arose from the infamous 2006 lacrosse team proceedings. Documents filed in the court reveal that 4 attorneys from the Wilmer-Hale law firm were given the green light in June to walk away from the task of representing […]
READ MORE
