Alex Clearfield

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Alex Ebert |Alex Clearfield |Patrick Gregory

The Florida Supreme Court should allow people without an American Bar Association-accredited JD to take the state’s bar exam, according to comments submitted to a state workgroup. Records obtained by Bloomberg Law show comments submitted by practitioners and an online law school to the workgroup—formed after Trump administration threats to end ABA law school accreditation due to DEI—were all in favor of broadening access to Florida’s exam.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Maia Spoto |Alex Clearfield |Stephanie Gleason

Former celebrity lawyer and Donald Trump antagonist Michael Avenatti’s 14-year criminal sentence was reduced to a little more than 11 years Thursday by a California federal judge. Judge James V. Selna in the US District Court for the Central District of California resentenced Avenatti to 135 months. He credited Avenatti for the 40 months, roughly three years, has already served in a related case, so Avenatti will serve 95 months more in prison in this case.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jennifer Kay |Alex Clearfield |Andrew Harris

An Austrian asset manager’s insider trading allegations against Kraft Heinz Co. over $1.2 billion in stock sales shortly before Kraft’s share prices plummeted in 2018 were revived Monday by the Delaware Supreme Court.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephanie Gleason |Alex Clearfield

The implications of a major international prisoner swap in February—the deal that released American schoolteacher Marc Fogel from a Russian prison—will reach a San Francisco courtroom Friday. Fogel was released in exchange for Russian national Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly operated a Bitcoin money laundering entity called BTC-e and could have served as a key fact witness in the case of a BTC-e co-operator on trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau |Patrick Gregory |Alex Clearfield

A former Girardi Keese attorney Thursday pleaded guilty to criminal contempt related to the firm’s failure to distribute millions of dollars in settlement funds to victims of a fatal plane crash. David Lira, son-in-law of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi, pleaded guilty to a count alleging he violated a court order directing them to send the victims their money.