Holiday Punch

Garden & Gun magazine has outstanding cocktail recipes.  We are not great ones for punch, here at the White Collar Wire, but in a season...

Advent

Just in time for the beginning of Advent, four of my posts from the blog of the Cathedral Church of the Advent...

Take The Deal or Go To Trial? Exactly.

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...

It’s Only A Fine

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...

Pumpkin Cocktail from Hot and Hot Fish Club

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

Good People, Bad Acts and Intent

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...