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[Webinar] Financial Services Cyber Fraud: The Latest Risks and Best Responses - October 20th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

Cyber fraud costs the financial services industry billions in losses each year and has been on the rise. Regulation has followed, creating risks of a different kind. This timely webinar will walk through some of the latest...more

Admissions of Wrongdoing Back in Vogue: SEC Enforcement Pendulum Swings

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced its intention to avoid “neither admit nor deny” settlements in some cases and instead return to an Obama-era policy requiring more individuals and companies to...more

New Cybersecurity Enforcement Through DOJ’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative and the False Claims Act

On October 6, 2021, the Department of Justice opened up a new front in cybersecurity compliance when it announced a Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative using the False Claims Act and other civil enforcement tools against government...more

Defense Lawyers Can ‘Rewrite’ the Sentencing Guidelines, One Case at a Time

Over 90 percent of federal defendants plead guilty, and 83 percent of those who go to trial are convicted on at least one count.1 In most indicted federal cases, the question is not how to persuade a jury at trial, but how to...more

Challenging Sentencing Guidelines With Comparable Cases

In December, the U.S. Sentencing Commission issued a report on the influence of the U.S. sentencing guidelines on average sentences imposed. The commission found that the guidelines "generally continue to have a substantial...more

Making Good on Its Promise: SEC Pursues Cyber Enforcement Actions Against Financial Services Companies

On August 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges with several investment advisory firms and broker-dealers following email account takeovers. These settlements are the latest in a string of...more

[Webinar] The California Consumer Privacy Act: Are You Ready? - August 25th, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

Join in-house counsel, chief privacy and information officers, and C-suite leaders for an in-depth program featuring Carlton Fields' Cybersecurity and Privacy attorneys. For companies subject to the CCPA, the law ushered...more

Supreme Court Casts a Wide Net with Rule 10b-5

The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that someone doesn’t need to have “made” a false or misleading statement to have primary liability under the securities fraud rules. ...more

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