Handwriting On The Wall (And In The FBI’s Notes)
As the father of a college-bound high school senior and an eventually college-bound high school sophomore, I pass along to them helpful articles. Whether, in...
Where Did You Go, Batman? Martin Shkreli, Congress, the Fifth Amendment and You
It does not help that the most recent symbol of the Fifth Amendment is The Joker: There has been plenty of news coverage about...
The Yates Memo and Three Dog Night
Deputy Attorney General YatesUnless you have been on a monastic retreat or hidden as carefully as Hillary Clinton’s email server, you have by now likely...
The Myth of Club Fed
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...
The Drinking Reader, Our Cocktails Magazine, Tom Jones and Other Weekend Matters
White Collar Wire supports cocktails. As part of that effort, I have a magazine on Flipboard called (helpfully) “Cocktails.” Follow here, read on and use good...
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...
“Isn’t pretty much everyone you represent a criminal? Why use tax money for that?” | An Interview With Federal Public Defender Kevin Butler
We took a few minutes and sat down with Kevin Butler, the Federal Public Defender in the Northern District of Alabama. Before he was appointed...
For Corporate Counsel || Stalking Horses, Pitchfork Crowds, Narrow Neckties, Mr. Rogers’s Slippers and Indicted Employees: 6 Steps To Dodge Being Deweyed
You may (or may not) recall the Boy Scout Law: “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, friendly, brave, clean and...
Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction
Pop culture and theology mix fruitfully in pulp-crime fiction. Here’s a four-part course from 2012: Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction . Here’s the blurb...
The Super Bowl, Jamie Casino and the Rights and Wrongs of White-Collar Defense
As a football game, the Super Bowl was dreadful, at least in terms of entertainment value. As a cultural petri dish, its television advertisements (and...