The Federal Trade Commission said Friday that it plans to boost efforts to address scammers amid FTC data showing U.S. consumers lost more than a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, a 14% increase from 2022. Investment scams took the most money, with consumers reporting losses of more than…

DuBose Miller, LLC 01/23/2024Daily Report TO: ALL MEMBERS OF THE BAR AND ALL CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA The Atlanta Judicial Commission is now accepting nominations for the position of Municipal Court Judge for the City of Atlanta Municipal Court. Members of the bar may nominate themselves or others,…

With the rise in government subpoenas directly to individuals demanding that they turn over their private text messages on their personal cell phones, lawyers should be on the lookout for potential Fourth Amendment violations. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) practice of subpoenaing…

Last time, we looked at interpretive strategies designed to avoid anti-fraud regulatory regimes like those skirted in Enron and other corporate fiascos. But what of laws that can support readings that can fairly be interpreted to allow or prohibit certain business practices? Statutes that are open textured and vague (like…

Instead of putting too many eggs into the SPAC or venture capital baskets, Holland & Knight’s corporate team in recent years focused on geographies and sectors that might give them returns, especially within the middle market. In a year when some firms struggled to find the large cap deals necessary to…

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest enforcement action — charging several broker-dealers and investment advisers for recordkeeping violations — has sent a wave of defense work to a group of big law firms. Defense counsel for 16 companies and firms charged by the SEC include Foley & Lardner, Milbank, Sidley Austin, and…