For those who refer in cavalier fashion to white-collar convicts and “Club Fed,” consider this New York Times article on Raj Gupta’s federal prison experience: Onetime...

Law360’s Zachary Zagger has a nice piece on the FIFA prosecution and quotes, among others, Jack Sharman: “Given this many defendants and the fact that...

Civil lawyers can learn something from criminal trials. Here is a 20-minute talk . . .   . . . and, if you are ambitious,...

We’ve recently expanded our blogs, links and sources page.  Good resources for white-collar crime, cocktails, crime fiction and theology.  Sometimes all at once. Have at it....

You may use Flipboard as a nifty way to organize news and media in which you have an interest.  (If you don’t use Flipboard, try...

Almost two decades ago, I learned several lessons as a Congressional lawyer, some more useful than others.  Here is a 59-second summary of the better...

In an article by Joel Schectman for the Wall Street Journal and its “Morning Risk Report,” Jack Sharman is interviewed about the idea of a...

The federal appeals court in San Francisco recently reversed baseball player Barry Bonds’s conviction for obstruction of justice. The criminal charge and conviction arose out of...

In disciplinary proceedings involving claims of sexual assault, universities continue to find themselves in an intolerable situation, caught in a lawyer-triangle of the Department of...

Although one must admire the historicist sensibilities of a state legislature that just reinstated the firing squad  as a methodology for execution, the Utah legislature’s passage...