Corporate Investigations & Integrity

The growth of Lowenstein’s White Collar Criminal Defense and Capital Markets Litigation practices with the arrival of new partners Rachel Maimin and H. Gregory Baker is highlighted in The New York Times, Law360 (April 1, 2019; April 29, 2019),  NJBIZ, Securities Docket, Law.com, Global Investigations Review, Bloomberg Law – Big Law Business, Reuters, The Deal, and the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey’s (CIANJ) Business Beat newsletter. Several of the articles note the new partners’ previous high-profile government experience: Maimin as part of the Southern District of New York team that investigated and prosecuted President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, and Baker’s extensive investigative work with the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and other federal agencies. (subscription required to access certain content).

The American Lawyer features Lowenstein Sandler’s recent “lateral hiring spree of government lawyers and prosecutors” in an article on the arrival of new partners and former government litigators Rachel Maimin and Greg Baker. Both Maimin, former SDNY assistant U.S. attorney, and Baker, former senior counsel at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, praised Lowenstein’s “commitment to growing its white-collar practice,” in addition to the strength of its investment management and funds practice, as critical elements attracting them to the firm. 

The piece notes that since former Attorney General of New Jersey Anne M. Milgram joined the firm in July 2017 as special counsel and former Attorney General of New Jersey Christopher Porrino returned to the firm in 2018, Lowenstein has welcomed several former prosecutors and government lawyers. The firm’s Litigation team now includes former First Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey Peter Slocum; former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of New York Ryan M. Wilson; former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York Elie Honig; and former Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey Shontae D. Gray. 

Porrino, Chair of the firm’s Litigation group, says that “he expected the firm’s ‘talent binge’ to continue. … ‘We’re focused on talent and we’re focused on experience and I think Rachel and Greg are great examples of that.’” (This article also appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal and on Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! News.) (subscription required to access certain content) View Lowenstein’s news announcement about Maimin and Baker joining the firm.

Peter D. Greene is quoted in Barron’s discussing a recent lawsuit filed against The Weather Channel app by the City of Los Angeles for dishonestly gathering and selling users’ location information to hedge funds and money managers that use such data to gain insights regarding consumer behavior. Greene notes that more suits against alternative data collection could eventually be filed and advises his clients to remain vigilant with regard to data provenance. (subscription required to access article)

Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Associated Press, USA Today, CNN, ESPN, the NBA, Mavs Moneyball, ABC, CBS, MSN, SportsDay (The Dallas Morning News), the Dallas Observer, the Star-Telegram, Corporate Counsel, Law360, and numerous other outlets note Anne Milgram as co-lead attorney (alongside Evan Krutoy of Krutoy Law, P.C.) in an independent investigation on behalf of the Dallas Mavericks to look into allegations of serious workplace misconduct within the team’s business operations. A seven-month process involving 215 interviews and review of more than 1.6 million documents resulted in the September 19 release of The Report of the Independent Investigation of Dallas Basketball Limited, as well as a press conference in which Anne detailed the investigation’s methodology and the report’s findings and recommendations. Sports Illustrated describes the investigation’s approach as “thorough, objective and as complete as reasonably possible.” The article lauds that fact that the Mavericks hired two impartial, “high-caliber attorneys” and gave them “complete and unfettered access,” and it notes the NBA’s implicit endorsement of the investigation given the league’s decision not to launch its own. The NBA says that the “extensive investigation … resulted in a detailed understanding of the scope and substance of the issues.” Corporate Counsel states that the report “could hold important lessons for GCs” and that in-house counsel would do well “to study the report’s recommendations … to see what might apply at their own companies.” The Washington Post reports that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has asked all 30 NBA teams to adopt the report’s recommendations. (subscription required to access certain content)