Month: February 2020

  • Conference of the Day: OffshoreAlert 2020

    Readers, check out OffshoreAlert’s 2020 North American conference, which will be held in Miami on April 19 to 21. “The event brings together more than 300 investigators, providers, and buyers of high-value financial products and services, including fraud and asset recovery attorneys, insolvency practitioners, litigation funders, professional service providers, regulators, law enforcement, journalists, and others.”……

  • See Something, Say Something: Letters Blogatory on Trump

    I am re-upping this post from December 10, 2015, in light of the resignations at the Department of Justice yesterday. What do you think? Readers abroad, you may not have heard the phrase, “If you see something, say something.” It’s something we here in the U.S. see all the time in public places and on……

  • Case of the Day: Zanghi v. Ritella

    The case of the day is Zanghi v. Ritella (S.D.N.Y. 2020). Francesco Zanghi and Zanghi LLC sued Piergraziano Ritella, Giuseppe Cavallaro, Alessandro Vacca, and Gioia e Vita S.r.L. alleging violations of the securities laws and the RICO Act. “Broadly described, the complaint alleges that defendants defrauded plaintiffs into investing in pizzerias in New York City……

  • Conference Announcement: The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention—A Game Changer?

    The Catholic University of Milan is hosting a conference on April 23, 2020 titled: “The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention—A Game Changer?” The conference is chaired by Fausto Pocar and will feature Gilles Cuniberti, Elena D’Allesandro, Francisco Garcimartín Alférez, Marko Jovanovic, Antonio Leandro, Matthias Weller, and Luca Radicati di Brozolo. The keynote will be delivered by……

  • A Profile In Courage

    As a citizen of Massachusetts and someone who pays attention to politics in the Commonwealth, I’ve had my eyes on Mitt Romney for a long time. After his turn in the private sector and his work with the Salt Lake City Olympics, he had a moderately successful term as governor of Massachusetts in the early……