USA v. COBURN et al

  1. September 19, 2023

    Feds Call Ex-Cognizant Execs' Experts Irrelevant To Trial

    Prosecutors pressed a New Jersey federal court on Tuesday to exclude testimony from more than half the experts that two former Cognizant executives are using in their defense against foreign bribery charges, questioning the witnesses' qualifications and relevancy.

  2. April 17, 2023

    Cognizant Can Withhold Certain Docs In Bribery Case

    A New Jersey federal judge ruled Monday that Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. doesn't need to hand over notes and summaries from meetings between the company and prosecutors investigating former executives for bribery, rejecting the executives' attempts to force the company to turn them over.

  3. January 02, 2023

    3 New Jersey Matters To Watch In 2023

    As a new year of litigation dawns in New Jersey, state and federal courts have teed up for them a high-profile criminal trial, tax breaks for the gambling industry and a potential out for Uber drivers trying to keep their misclassification suit alive.

  4. December 22, 2022

    Ex-Cognizant Execs Want 'Outsourced' Bribery Docs Barred

    A New Jersey federal judge has unsealed requests by former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives to bar prosecutors from using certain "outsourced" evidence collected by Cognizant's in-house counsel during their criminal bribery trials, arguing that corporate counsel unfairly served as prosecutors' investigators.

  5. August 12, 2022

    Alston & Bird Fights Ex-Cognizant Exec's Claim Of Atty 'Taint'

    An Alston & Bird LLP attorney on Thursday joined in the government's bid to prevent the former chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. from revisiting his objections to her representation of the company in his corruption case.

  6. August 10, 2022

    Ex-Cognizant CLO Says Feds Can't Silence Atty Taint Claims

    The former chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. urged a New Jersey federal court Wednesday to reject the government's attempt to stop him from raising objections in his corruption case over the role of an Alston & Bird LLP attorney after he dropped a bid to disqualify the lawyer from representing the company.

  7. May 05, 2022

    Cognizant Must Hand Over Docs In Ex-Execs' Bribery Case

    A New Jersey federal judge has ordered Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. to hand over troves of documents from an internal corruption investigation to a pair of indicted former executives who are accused of arranging a $2 million bribe in exchange for a construction permit in India.

  8. July 21, 2021

    New Jersey Cases To Watch In 2021: A Midyear Report

    The New Jersey legal industry is poised to receive guidance on arbitration, discovery and litigation time limits as they apply to employment law thanks to cases that advanced during the first half of 2021, including a former state official's whistleblower lawsuit over COVID-19 testing and gender discrimination claims against Fox Rothschild LLP.

  9. June 16, 2021

    Ex-Cognizant Execs Want Cooperator's Bribery Probe Docs

    Two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives charged with foreign bribery are seeking to force an Indian conglomerate to hand over information that could help clear their names, arguing that a New Jersey federal court has jurisdiction over the conglomerate because it cooperated with U.S. investigators.

  10. March 16, 2020

    'Outsourcing' Ruling Will Remain Outlier If Judges Don't Bite

    It has been nearly a year since a federal judge shook the status quo in the white collar bar by ruling that prosecutors had improperly "outsourced" an investigation to Paul Weiss, but attempts by defendants in other cases to get a similar ruling face a high bar, including convincing judges to grant access to key evidence.