Month: August 2006

Last week the ABA adopted two statements to preserve the attorney-client privilege. First, it adopted in modified form, the recommendations of its Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege. http://www.abanet.org/media/releases/news080806_1.html The ABA Task Force made recommendations that, in part, seem to echo …

ABA Resolutions to Preserve Rights in Prosecutorial Process Are A Beginning, Not An End Read More »

Reaching a “quick and unanimous” decision and citing the weakness of the government’s case, a jury in the Southern District of New York delivered the government a decisive defeat on August 2, 2006, when they acquitted Robert A. Scavone, a …

Government Handed Quick Defeat in Criminal Securities Fraud Case Read More »