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White Collar Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring
January 19, 2012 — White Collar Law360
Los Angeles-based White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group chair Janet Levine speaks to Law360 about the strength of Crowell & Moring’s White Collar & Regulatory Group and its recent successes.
According to Levine, "I think what we do in white collar is so integral to what the firm does generally that building the firm requires an integrated white collar and regulatory group." She added that the firm has strong focuses in the areas of government contracts, antitrust, health care and environmental law. "You can't have those practices without having people in the firm who are experienced and focused on the potential white collar and criminal aspects. I think the firm recognizes how integral we are to what we are all focused on."
Litigators of the Week: Jan Handzlik of Venable and Janet Levine of Crowell & Moring
December 1, 2011 — AmLaw Litigation Daily
Los Angeles-based chair of Crowell & Moring’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group, Janet Levine, is featured in the American Lawyer Litigation Daily‘s “Litigators of the Week” for her success in vindicating Lindsey Manufacturing Chief Financial Officer by vacating previous convictions and winning complete dismissal of the indictment based on prosecutorial misconduct. The case had been the first-ever trial against a corporate defendant charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
According to the article, Levine said “that her client and colleagues were thrilled that the judge had been willing to consider the government's actions over the entire course of the prosecution and ultimately ‘vindicate justice.’”
DOJ Went 'Badly Awry' In Lindsey FCPA Case: Judge
December 1, 2011 — White Collar Law360
Los Angeles-based chair of Crowell & Moring’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group, Janet Levine, is featured in
Law360 for her role in successfully defending Lindsey Manufacturing Co. Chief Financial Officer Steve Lee against Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) allegations.
"Top 100 Women Litigators" Profile: Janet Levine
May 11, 2011 — Los Angeles Daily Journal
Los Angeles-based partner and chair of the firm's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group Janet Levine has been named to the 2011 Daily Journal list of "Top Women Litigators."
As chair-elect of the American Bar Association’s criminal justice section, Levine's work includes forming a task force that will subsequently develop national standards for electronically stored information in criminal cases.
According to Levine, "Unlike the civil arena, there are no criminal ESI standards… But the volume of information is, like in civil cases, huge. The costs and complexities of subpoena compliance are overwhelming…Document preservation is crucial, with the concern, unique in criminal cases, that mishandling forensic collection and preservation of ESI could be constructed by law enforcement as an obstruction of justice."
Q&A with White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group Chair Janet Levine
October 18, 2010 — White Collar Law360
Crowell & Moring LLP Los Angeles office partner and chair of the White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group, Janet Levine, discusses her practice and insights into white collar legal trends. She also dishes out advice for new lawyers, saying, "First and foremost is always doing excellent work. Each and every engagement is important, and there is no substitute for excellent work. Second, become knowledgeable in the area. Read the important new decisions and follow the important investigations and prosecutions — even if you don't have a case that is directly related at the time."
Conference Reports: Federal Prosecutors Promise Tough Enforcement, Encourage Cooperation As Defense Attorneys Gather for Annual ABA White Collar Crime Institute
March 12, 2010 — BNA's White Collar Crime Report
Janet Levine, Los Angeles-based partner with Crowell & Moring LLP and chair of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group, was featured as a panalists in BNA’s coverage of the American Bar Association’s 24th annual National Institute on White Collar Crime. Levine spoke during a session on obstruction-of-justice cases and talked about the need to warn clients as early as possible against trying to deceive employers during corporate internal investigations. According to Levin, “some U.S. attorneys offices have brought obstruction charges against employees who gave statements to employers before the government even began an investigation. Federal prosecutors bring those counts on the theory that the employee should have known his or her statement would be shared with prosecutors.” She called it the “broadest interpretation” of the statute’s “knowingly” element. “Clients aren’t used to thinking that what they say to their boss is going to put them in jail,” she said.
U.S. Attorney the Latest Prize in Competition to Build White-Collar Practices in L.A.
August 11, 2009 — National Law Journal and The Recorder
Janet Levine, Los Angeles-based Crowell & Moring LLP partner and member of the firm’s White Collar & Securities Litigation Group, is featured in the
National Law Journal for a piece on the growth of white collar practices in Los Angeles. According to Levine, "White-collar practices have grown steadily in Los Angeles in recent years, particularly as prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - mostly involving the Asia-Pacific region - have ramped up." She also discusses the fact that this growth is due to Los Angeles being, "one of the biggest U.S. attorney's offices in the country, so one would expect an increasing amount of prosecutions and investigations out of this area."
Corporate Crime Defense Bar in Unison: More Prosecutions Are on the Way
February 19, 2009 — Corporate Crime Reporter
Crowell & Moring LLP White Collar and Securities Litigation Group co-chair Thomas A. Hanusik and partner Janet Levine are featured for their comments on the outcome of a recent
Corporate Crime Reporter survey on corporate crime prosecutions under Eric Holder and the new administration. The recent survey suggests that there will be an increase in corporate crime prosecutions.
According to Hanusik, while tougher enforcement is undoubtedly in the offing, "a decrease in the use of deferred or non-prosecution agreements for institutional defendants seems unlikely. The government now has a stake in many of the institutions under scrutiny and it is not going to impose a corporate death penalty on entities that it just spent billions bailing out. Look for higher fines, stricter settlement terms and a continued increase in the use of corporate monitors."
According to Levine, she "sees an uptick in pre-trial settlements. Individuals are the easiest targets of prosecutions and regulatory actions, and we can expect increased individual criminal prosecutions and regulatory actions. However, as the economy creates an increased incentive to find alternate resolutions for entities, so as to avoid a ‘killing the company’ scenario, we can expect to see continued, and perhaps increased, use of deferred prosecutions and creative resolutions."
D.C.'s Crowell & Moring Nabs L.A. White-Collar Boutique
October 6, 2008 — Los Angeles Daily Journal
On October 1, 2008, the lawyers of white collar law firm Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine LLP joined Crowell & Moring, opening its Los Angeles office and boosting its ability to provide corporate and individual clients with top quality white collar litigation counsel in California. All seven of its lawyers and its entire staff joined Crowell & Moring to launch its new office. The news was featured in the
Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Recorder, Securities Law360, Bloomberg News, National Law Journal, etc…