The awful pressure to plead guilty, brought on by the significantly enhanced sentences that the Government often seeks where a defendant asserts his right to...

One would expect fines In civil and criminal enforcement actions to bear some relationship to both the offensive conduct and the statute that authroizes the...

From the Hot and Hot Fish Club  in Birmingham, owned by my friends Chris and Idie Hastings, comes a Thanksgiving beverage: Smashing Pumpkin Cocktail....

From Professor Peter J. Henning, more on the “why” of white-collar offenses:  When Good People Do Bad Things: That is the conundrum of many white-collar...

  The week of Thanksgiving, the Bay Psalm Book is auctioned for $14 million: The little volume of psalms, one of only 11 known to...

Here’s a note from Professor Ellen Podgor about an article on Sentencing the Why of White Collar Crime by Todd Haugh (Illinois Institute of Technology...

Here’s the recipe for a Mai Tai. A Mai Tai is not really a Thanksgiving cocktail, but it reminds me of something I’ve always wanted...

Here’s a useful article on the Third-Party Doctrine.   That doctrine, first articulated by the Supreme Court in Smith v. Maryland, has been the principle behind...

  The Network of Trial Law Firms is an excellent CLE vehicle.  Here’s a Sharman White Collar Panel Video of a Network panel about white-collar...

In general, one should strive to avoid being named the most arrogant law firm four years running: The Most Arrogant Law Firm. To be fair,...