Regulatory & Compliance

False Claims Act

Lori L. Pines, Kevin F. Meade | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Governments at all levels are increasingly turning to federal and state false claims act statutes in an attempt to combat fraud against the government and to address the record deficits they are running. At the same time, legislatures have been steadily broadening the scope of what constitutes a...

Litigation

Christian Bartholomew, Christopher L. Garcia, Layne S. R. Behrens | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

In Gabelli v. SEC, No. 11-1274, 2013 WL 691002 (U.S. Feb. 27, 2013), the Supreme Court unanimously adopted a bright-line rule that, in SEC enforcement cases where the SEC seeks civil money penalties, the five-year statute of limitations provided for in 28 U. S. C. §2462[1] begins to run when...

Energy

Wayne J. D'Angelo | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Editor: Please tell us about your professional background. D’Angelo: After college I went to work for a congressman on Capitol Hill, where I was involved with energy and environmental issues. I was then named a presidential appointee at the EPA, where I worked first as the director of...