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September, 12, 2012 - News
S&F wins substantial judgment for clients against SanDisk Corporation in federal court breach of contract action focusing on computer technology issues.
S&F wins approximately $6 million judgment for Israeli flash drive inventors after bench trial before Judge William H. Pauley III in the Southern District of New York.
March, 19, 2012 - News
Marjorie Peerce and Nathaniel Kolodny, on behalf of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, submitted comments to the United States Sentencing Commission regarding the 2012 Proposed Amendements to the Sentencing Guidelines
Marjorie Peerce and Nathaniel Kolodny, on behalf of and in conjunction with the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, submitted comments to the United States Sentencing Commission regarding the 2012 Proposed Amendements to the Sentencing Guidelines, Policy Statements, and Official Commentary.
July, 18, 2011 - News
John B. Harris elected Board Chair of the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) New York Region.
March 2011 - News
International Who's Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers 2011 again names two members of the firm.
Two members of the firm, Charles A. Stillman and Marjorie J. Peerce have again been designated by their peers as leaders in their respective fields, according to the 2011 edition of The International Who's Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers, a guide to the foremost legal practictioners in 36 jurisdctions of the international legal marketplace.
August, 23, 2010 - News
SF&S wins sanctions against SanDisk Corporation for destruction of evidence.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley, J.) held that SanDisk Corporation had destroyed "potentially powerful evidence" and that SanDisk's expertise in the field of data storage exacerbated its spoliation.
February 2010 - News
International Who's Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers 2010 names three members of the firm.
Charles A. Stillman, Paul Shechtman, and Marjorie J. Peerce have been designated by their peers as leaders in their respective fields, according to the 2010 edition of The International Who's Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers.
February 2010 - Publications
Marjorie J. Peerce and Daniel V. Shapiro, "The Increasing Privacy Expectations in Employees' Personal Email," 13 No. 8 Journal of Internet Law 1 (February 2010).
Marjorie J. Peerce and Daniel V. Shapiro write: "[U]se of both work email and personal Web-based email, all while on company equipment, has raised complex questions regarding privacy expectations in the changing workplace."
February 2010 - Publications
Marjorie J. Peerce and Elizabeth S. Weinstein, "Confronting the Forensic Facts," Law Journal Newsletters.
Marjorie J. Peerce and Elizabeth S. Weinstein write: "Most matters involving white-collar investigations and prosecutions do not result in trials, so evidentiary issues are not frequently discussed in articles on business crime. A new focus on evidentiary issues, however, is warranted in light of a pair of recent Supreme Court cases built upon the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause."
June 2009 - Publications
Marjorie J. Peerce and Daniel V. Shapiro, "Look, But Don't Log-in: Personal Web-Based Accounts in Internal Investigations," Law Journal Newsletters.
Marjorie J. Peerce and Daniel V. Shapiro, write: You are in-house counsel at a public company and you suspect an employee may be leaking inside information. You decide to conduct an internal investigation. A computer forensic analysis reveals that the employee has accessed a personal Web-based e-mail account from a company computer and that the login information (username and password) has been recovered from the computer's memory. Can you log in to that account and read the e-mail?
October 2004 - Publications
Nathaniel Z. Marmur, co-author, "Federal Sentencing During the Interregnum: Defense Practice as the Blakely Dust Settles," 17.1 Federal Sentencing Reporter 51
Nathaniel Z. Marmur, a partner at Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, writes: "Although the long term impact of Blakely v. Washington is not yet clear, no one can doubt that the case raises a host of immediate, significant and perplexing practical questions for federal criminal defense attorneys."
July 19th, 2004 - Publications
Paul Shechtman and Nathaniel Z. Marmur, "Federal Sentencing After 'Blakely,'" New York Law Journal.
May 6th, 2004 - Publications
Nathaniel Z. Marmur, Outside Counsel: "High Court Considers ‘Blakely’ in Light of ‘Apprendi’ and ‘Ring,’" New York Law Journal.
Nathaniel Marmur, a partner at Stillman, Friedman & Schectman, reviews the oral argument from Blakely v. Washington, a challenge to Washington state's sentencing scheme that has potential far-reaching implications for the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
June 24th, 2003 - Publications
Paul Shechtman and Nathaniel Z. Marmur, Outside Counsel: "Retroactive Application of the PROTECT Act," New York Law Journal.
Paul Shechtman and Nathaniel Marmur, both partners at Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, write: "Earlier this month, in United States v. Smith, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined to decide whether "the recently enacted PROTECT Act ... diminishing a district court's discretion to depart from the applicable sentencing guidelines range" may be applied retroactively."
2003 - Publications
Charles A. Stillman, Julian W. Friedman and Nathaniel Z. Marmur, "Securities Fraud" (chapter) in White Collar Crime.
2003 - Publications
Tony Garoppolo, "The Sentencing Reform Act: A Guide for Defense Counsel" (Third edition, 2003) (Marjorie J. Peerce, Karin Klapper, Gates Garrity-Rokous editors).
January, 30, 2002 - Publications
Erik M. Zissu, “What Hath Captain Cook Wrought?: Bloodlines, the Fifteenth Amendment, and Racial Democracy in the Pacific,” 63 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 677 (2002)
November 14th, 2001 - Publications
Paul Shechtman and Nathaniel Z. Marmur, Outside Counsel: "New Sentencing Rules Affect Money Laundering," New York Law Journal
Paul Shechtman and Nathaniel Marmur, both partners at Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, write: "The United States Sentencing Commission has passed amendments to the money laundering guidelines, which became effective Nov. 1, 2001. This article reviews the amendments and highlights legal issues that are likely to arise under them."
May 3rd, 2001 - Publications
Paul Shechtman and Nathaniel Z. Marmur, Outside Counsel: "Separating Fraud from Tax Evasion in ‘Fitzgerald,’" New York Law Journal.
September, 19, 1999 - Publications
Carolyn Barth, “Aggravated Assaults with Chairs versus Guns: Impermissible Applied Double Counting Under the Sentencing Guidelines,” 99 Mich. L. Rev. 183.
June 1999 - Publications
Julian W. Friedman and Jody L. King, "Lawyers in the Regulatory Context, Practicing Law Institute’s Legal Malpractice: Techniques to Avoid Liability."
1999 - Publications
Paul Shechtman and Nathaniel Z. Marmur, "Government Lawyer Confidentiality After Lindsey," 1 Government, Law & Policy Journal 30.
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