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Send us Fan Mail Gurbir Grewal has been the Director of the Enforcement Division at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since 2001.  Prior to that, he had the distinction of being the first Sikh American to be Attorney General in any of the fifty states, and only the second South Asian to hold such an office after the former Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris.  Gurbir was the Ch...

Send us Fan Mail T. Markus Funk, a Partner at Perkins Coie in Denver, Colorado, was a Section Chief with the U.S. State Department in the Balkans, following the war in Kosovo, where he represented the United States in diplomatic negotiations and participated in the restructuring of Kosovo's post-war justice system.  Markus graduated from Northwestern School of Law, and later received a doctor...

Send us Fan Mail Representing criminal defendants with mental disabilities comes with a range of challenges that make these representations different from the usual criminal representation in important ways.  Elizabeth Kelley is an expert in the field, and the Editor of Representing People with Dementia:  A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers , recently published by the American Bar Assoc...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest is Richard Saenz, who is a senior attorney in the criminal justice and police misconduct strategist at Lambda Legal. He focuses his work on the criminal legal system, coordinating litigation and policy work on behalf of incarcerated people and against the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people. Richard has been featured in the Washington Post, NBC News, USA Today, Newsweek, an...

Send us Fan Mail The Atlantic Center for Capital Representation was founded in 2010, in Philadelphia.  The Center provides advice and counsel in death penalty cases around the country, as well as in federal death cases, and represents the Government of Mexico in death penalty cases involving Mexican nationals here in the United States. Justin and Geonard interviewed the Center’s co-founder and Exe...

Send us Fan Mail For three decades, since its founding in 1992 at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law, the Innocence Project has led a national effort to exonerate wrongly convicted defendants through scientific advances in DNA technology. That work has led to the exoneration of hundreds of wrongly convicted defendants, some of them on death row. Justin and Geonard interviewed the founders...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Nina and Joe have a discussion with Jim Felman on the United States' sentencing guidelines. 

Send us Fan Mail White Collar Talks makes its return! In this episode, Nina and Joe engage in a compelling discussion with Scott Schools, the Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer at Uber. Scott takes us through a typical day at Uber, where he navigates the intricacies of his role, and mentions the challenges he encounters as the Chief Compliance Officer of a corporation of Uber's magnitude. 

Send us Fan Mail   Featuring: Bill Shepherd is an experienced trial lawyer and partner at Holland & Knight's West Palm Beach and Washington, D.C. offices. As previous Chair of the Criminal Justice Section, Bill discusses his early career and how he became involved in the Criminal Justice Section as a law student, eventually creating the London White Collar Crime Institute.  Bill joins Nin...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Lucian Dervan is a Professor of Law and Director of Criminal Justice Studies at Belmont University College of Law. Lucian joins Nina and Joe to discuss international internal investigations, international white collar crime, and international criminal justice issues. As former Chair of the ABA's Criminal Justice Section, Lucian led the Section into the internationa...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring:   Ray Banoun, one of the founders of the National White Collar Crime Institute.    Maggie O’Donnell, trial attorney focused on white collar criminal defense and civil matters.    Hosts: Nina Marino, is a partner and founder of Kaplan Marino based in Los Angeles. In her national practice, she regularly represents individuals in white collar and complex criminal matters....

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Faraz Mohammadi, Assistant United States Attorney, Orange County, CA Linda Britton ABA CJS Standards Director Kyo Suh ABA CJS Technology and Publications Manager Emily Johnson Senior Public Relations Specialist Join us to learn more about how you can take part in the many opportunities available to members of the Section, from publishing, to creating policy, fellowships...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Kristin Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law Kristin joins us to discuss her recently published book “The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.” Kristin shares some highlights with our listeners as well as sharing her method for gathering the perspectives and conclusions put...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Melba Pearson, Policy Director for the Center for the Administration of Justice with the Florida International University. Is that assault? Melba joins us to answer one of the questions that filled Twitter following the Oscars. Yes, we are talking about "the slap"  but as one of many examples as we try to discern the obligations of law enforcement and prosecut...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Wayne McKenzie, General Counsel at NYC Department of Probation Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section. Wayne joins us to give an update on what the Section has been up to and what plans they have for the coming months. We discuss in-person events like the recent National White Collar Crime Institute and our upcoming CJS Spring Meeting in Savannah. We also discuss the...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Prof. David M. Crane, Distinguished Scholar in Residence Syracuse University College of Law; Founding Chief Prosecutor UN Special Court for Sierra Leone; Founder, Global Accountability Network; Board of Advisors for the International Criminal Court Project (ABA’s Criminal Justice Section & Center for Human Rights) David joins us to highlight the war crimes and crime...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Michael J. Leotta Partner Wilmer Hale, Co-Chair of the ABA CJS White Collar Crime Committee Michael joins us on the podcast because President Biden signed an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency. Michael will help walk us through this order on a high level to discuss what the order includes, what the potential impact is and what practitioners need t...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Honorable Ernestine Gray, recently retired Judge of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, Co-Chair of the ABACJS Juvenile Justice Committee and member of the Juvenile Justice Standards Task Force and Chair-Elect of the Judicial Division. Honorable Denise Langford Morris, Oakland County Circuit Court Judge, Secretary of the National State Trial Judges Conference of the Judi...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Stephen Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law. Co-director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program at George Washington University School of Law. Former CJS Chair. The ABA policymaking body convened virtually Feb. 14 as part of the 2022 Midyear Meeting to debate and vote on a wide range of policy issues. CJS Delegate, Steve Saltzb...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Dr. Jonathan Wender Co-Founder, President and CEO of POLIS Solutions Jonathan joins us to examine rising crime and a potential relationship to recent police reforms. We discuss the need to focus on replicating successful practices and not just removal of police practices. We discuss the impact of recent reforms that were adopted in jurisdictions across the U.S. POLIS So...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Cynthia Nakao Professional Responsibility Advisor Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Ghislaine Maxwell was recently convicted of sex trafficking a minor, but her attorneys have formally requested a retrial stating that a juror did not disclose that they are a sexual abuse survivor. Cynthia highlights the applicable standards and potential problems that can a...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Mark Beardsworth partner in Cadwalader’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Group, resident in the London office. Saverio Lembo heads Bär & Karrer’s White Collar Crime practice group.  Frances McLeod is a founding partner of FRA and head of its US offices. Mark, Saverio and Frances are editors and contributors to the new CJS book, “An International Guide to Cor...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Wayne McKenzie, General Counsel at NYC Department of Probation Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section. Wayne joins us to give an update on what the Section has been up to and what plans they have for the coming months. We discuss in-person events like the recent white collar crime institutes and our upcoming CJS Fall Institute. We also discuss the other work of the S...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Raul Ayala, Deputy Federal Public Defender at Office of the Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California and the collaborative court supervising attorney. Ellen Yaroshefsky, The Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor in Legal Ethics and Professor of Law. Raul and Ellen join us to share what a day in the life is like for them as a public defender an...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring: Maryam Ahranjani, Associate Professor and Don L. & Mabel F. Dickason Professor with the University of New Mexico School of Law. Reporter of the Task Force: Women in Criminal Justice. Yaamini Rao, Deputy Public Defender at Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office. Advisory Board member and Data Committee Co-chair. The Task Force: Women in Criminal Justice joi...