Global Cocktails, Glorious Funerals, and TSOP Moral Philosophy
Nationwide drinks and eighteenth century funerals....
The Freedom of Little Joe Cartwright: Tax Crime, Edgar Allan Poe, Noir Film and Lacrosse
Notes for the week. Prosecuting Individuals Federal criminal tax lawyer Jack Townsend blogs at Federal Tax Crimes. Here is his note on Prosecuting Corporate Employees, particularly...
Of Snitches and Privileges
White-collar writer Walt Pavlo of @Forbes and 500 Pearl Street quotes us this morning in his insightful @Forbes article about the attorney-client privilege. In particular: Federal...
Privilege, Corporate Silence and Saul Goodman
We are past Labor Day, and just as well. Marked by the GM internal-investigation report’s criticism of some of the company’s internal lawyers, the summer...
Liz and Literacy
This note is not about white-collar crime. It’s something much better. The story of my colleague, Liz Huntley: ...
“Compensation” | Paul Laurence Dunbar
Compensation is a matter dear to lawyers’ hearts, white-collar and otherwise. Here’s a poem (via www.poets.org) by Paul Laurence Dunbar: Compensation Because I had loved...
How To Avoid Being GM’ed: The Wrongs and Rights of Clients and Lawyers
The GM internal-investigation report about ignition-switch problems raises a host of issues, one of which is its unusually sharp criticism of GM internal lawyers. Criticism...
And here, like Walker Percy, he interviews himself.
No one has ever asked me the lawyer-related questions I would like to be asked. At age fifty-three, time is passing. So, inspired by novelist Walker...
Dewey Need A Lawyer? Do You?
Here’s the usual well-chosen roundup of white-collar stories from Walt Pavlo at 500 Pearl Street. In particular, note the Dewey/Zachary Warren discussions and how retaining...
Clarence Darrow and What A Lot of White Collar Lawyers Think
Via Vanity Fair, a quote from a hell of a defense lawyer: “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with...