Full Play Owners To Pay $50M To Exit FIFA Bribery Dragnet

By Stewart Bishop

The father and son owners of Argentine sports marketing agency Full Play Group SA have agreed to pay $50 million as part of a deferred prosecution deal that resolves criminal charges brought by Brooklyn federal prosecutors for paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Latin American soccer officials.

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UEFA Eyes Criminal Case Over Abandoned World Cup Sale

By Alex Lawson

European soccer's governing body is asking a Florida federal court for access to documents that may build its criminal case against FIFA's now-abandoned plans to sell off the commercial rights to the World Cup tournament.

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Ex-Abercrombie CEO's Sex Trafficking Trial Pushed To Jan.

By Cara Salvatore

A Brooklyn federal judge on Thursday delayed the sex trafficking trial of former Abercrombie CEO Michael Jeffries and two others to Jan. 4 to give legal teams more time to prepare in the wake of the recent finding that Jeffries is competent.

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Feds Want Ex-Google Engineer To Get Over 5 Yrs For AI Theft

By Dorothy Atkins

Prosecutors have urged a California federal judge to sentence ex-Google software engineer Linwei Ding to nearly 6 years in prison for stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets, while Ding argued that the government's suggestion is based on speculative evidence and he deserves only home confinement since he was acquitted of economic espionage.

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Cannabis Exec Says Sheriff Initiative Wasn't Key To License

By Carolyn Muyskens

The social equity chief of cannabis company Ascend Wellness Holdings testified Thursday that she faced no pressure to hold on to an allegedly critical partnership with a Massachusetts sheriff who is now on trial for extortion.

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Rising Star: Troutman's Jennifer McCoy

By Phillip Bantz

Jennifer McCoy of Troutman Pepper Locke LLP co-led two trial teams that secured a not guilty verdict in a novel criminal wage-fixing prosecution and, in a separate case, an acquittal in a sprawling healthcare fraud prosecution, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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LGBCoin Defendant Says $75K Fee Bid In Suit Is Inflated

By Madison Arnold

The defendant who lost a default judgment earlier this month in favor of "Let's Go Brandon" meme coin investors has told a Florida federal judge that the plaintiffs' $75,000 fees request is too high.

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Tax Pro Avoids Jail For Role In 'Singapore Solution' Fraud

By Pete Brush

A New York federal judge on Thursday allowed an English national to avoid prison for facilitating a $60 million tax evasion scheme, after he admitted helping wealthy clients move money from a Swiss bank through his Hong Kong financial services business.

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NC Crypto Kiosk Law Opens Door To Stricter Fraud Regs

North Carolina's new cryptocurrency kiosk law will force operators to build fraud-screening, disclosure and compliance systems before the end of the year, while also providing an opening for more stringent city and county limits on kiosk placement and operations, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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Taekwondo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Taekwondo has taught me to recognize when to fight for a position and when to focus on finding a solution, and that the best outcomes are often achieved by solving problems — all of which has improved my work as a bankruptcy lawyer, mediator and Subchapter V trustee, says Amy Denton Mayer at Berger Singerman.

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Inside The $150M Immigration Contract That Wasn't

By Daniel Connolly

The leader of a small Houston-based law firm says she was "blindsided" by an announcement from the federal government that her 24-attorney shop had won a $150 million no-bid contract to represent thousands of immigrant children in deportation proceedings.

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ABA Faces Uphill Battle To Remain As Law School Accreditor

By Emma Cueto

The American Bar Association council responsible for accrediting law schools is fighting on multiple fronts to retain its status as a nationwide accreditor, fending off challenges at both the federal and state levels.

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Dems Say DOJ Opinion Aims To Foil Oversight Of White House

By Courtney Bublé

With midterm elections right around the corner, Senate Democrats are worried the new legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice could let the Trump Administration obstruct congressional oversight of the White House.

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Google Users' Atty Fee To Be In 'Realm' Of $147M, Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge indicated Thursday that he won't give the full $147 million in fees sought by lawyers who won a $425 million class action verdict against Google for unlawfully collecting user information, but he said their "really excellent lawyering" deserves an amount "within that realm."

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Womble Bond Asks To Drop Dutch Software Client Over Rift

By Hayley Fowler

Womble Bond Dickinson is looking to pull its representation of a Dutch software company after five years of a bitter trademark battle, citing a "fundamental disagreement" that has allegedly made it impossible for the firm to move forward as counsel of record.

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