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In this episode, Joe Whitley and Lynsey Barron discuss corporate monitorships with Ling-Ling Nie,  who is the Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance & ESG Officer, Head of Government Affairs at Aura and Scott Marrah, Partner at White Collar Criminal Defense & Internal Investigations  at Kilpatrick Townsend. 

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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 Chief Prosecutor of Bergen County in New Jersey, and before that the Head of the Economic Crimes Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey.  Justin and Gurbir sat down for a “fireside chat” at the annual White Collar Conference of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL).  The episode was recorded in front of a live audience, with PACDL’s permission.

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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 doctorate in law from the University of Oxford, where he taught as a law professor.  Markus was also a federal prosecutor in Chicago, where he prosecuted members of the Chicago mafia, most notably in a case called Operation Family Secrets, the subject of our discussion today. 

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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 Association.  The book is a collection of 16 essays by lawyers, psychiatrists, and psychologists. You can purchase the book here. 

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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, and The Advocate. 

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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 Executive Director, Marc Bookman, and the President of its Board of Directors, Patrick Egan. Marc and Pat are long-time members of the Philadelphia criminal defense bar, and have, themselves, litigated numerous death penalty cases.  Marc is also the author of the recently published book by The New Press, called a Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays.  Marc has also published in The Atlantic, and Slate, among other publications.  

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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 of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. 

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

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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. 

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 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 Nina and Joe to discuss the London White Collar Crime Institute and how it came to be. They also discuss why it is worth attending this conference, how it's different from others, memorable moments, social networking, virtual programming, and details of this year's upcoming conference. 

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