New Deputy AG Todd Blanche has issued this memo to all U.S. Attorneys:
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New Deputy AG Todd Blanche has issued this memo to all U.S. Attorneys:
It's here for the next 3 days, folks. Lots of big firm "litigators" descending on Miami to discuss the latest white collar trends. Usually there are a bunch of DOJ officials that attend. Not this year. From Bloomberg:
Several senior Justice Department officials are last-minute scratches at a white-collar crime conference that leaders have regularly used to engage with the defense bar and reveal new policy initiatives.
The gathering, organized each year by the American Bar Association, begins March 5 in Miami and features a various panel discussions on trends in US enforcement. But most of the senior DOJ lawyers planning to appear are no longer on the schedule.
They include Glenn Leon, chief of the criminal division’s fraud section; Molly Moeser, head of a money laundering and asset forfeiture unit; David Fuhr, chief of the criminal division’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit; and Michael Granston, a deputy assistant attorney general in the civil division’s commercial litigation branch.
That's what Alex Spiro is charging at Quinn Emanuel. Per Reuters:
Quinn Emanuel's $3,000 top rate marks a milestone for leading U.S. law firms as lawyers' hourly fees continue to soar.What do you do on the weekend before trial? Are you cramming? Do you try to relax a bit? Do you spend time with the client?
An old colleague of mine at the PD's, Vince Farina, used to say -- if you don't know it by now, you don't know it. He would go get a massage and a haircut.
Congratulations to Judge Enjoliqué Lett on her investiture last Friday. Attendees say it was a heartfelt event, with several speakers remembering Judge Marcia G. Cooke, for whom Judge Lett clerked.
In addition to family and colleagues, Judge Seitz, Judge Williams, and Stephanie Casey spoke, with Judge Gayles administering the oath of office.
I'm about to start a trial where I really believe in my client. I like to watch trial movies and scenes to get fired up before the trial gets going. Of course there are the classics like A Few Good Men, My Cousin Vinny, 12 Angry Men, A Time to Kill, and others.
What are your favorite trial movies and scenes?
1. From NPR:
The Republican-led Senate voted Thursday to confirm Kash Patel as the new FBI director despite questions about whether he has the qualifications and the temperament to lead the nation's most powerful law enforcement agency....the feds dropped a drug case against a doctor who was previously accused of sex trafficking because of a bad warrant. Jayne Weintraub was Dr. Jeffrey Kamlet's lawyer. From the Herald:
Serious mistakes by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office led to the dismissal Tuesday of federal narcotics charges against Dr. Jeffrey Kamlet, a Miami addiction doctor accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl found hiding in his closet with another teenager in 2022. In a court filing last week, Kamlet’s attorney, Jayne Weintraub, seized on several errors made in drafting the search warrants, among them, an obvious “cut and paste” job by the investigator for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s Human Trafficking Task Force. The dismissal of the federal drug charges is another stunning embarrassment for Rundle, whose office has come under scrutiny after years of sloppy prosecutions that have led to similar dismissals, as well as resignations of top lawyers in her office.