North America: Criminal Law

The Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) has ruled that Cabinet lacked reasonable grounds to believe that a national emergency existed when it invoked...

Dozens of college and university campuses experienced protests in April and May of 2024 due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Many were peaceful, but some turned violent...

Ben Cohen charged with "unlawful entry" whilst protesting against the prosecution of Julian Assange.

On January 29, 2026, the New York City Council voted to override then-Mayor Eric Adams's veto of Int. No. 1297-A.

While law enforcement uses a variety of tools to identify and disrupt fraud and public corruption schemes, no tool is more important than identifying people with knowledge of such schemes and incentivizing them to report on them.

The United States Supreme Court unanimously held that restitution imposed under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 (MVRA) is "plainly"...

The Delaware Supreme Court has clarified important aspects of Delaware law in the context of an earnout dispute that the Delaware Chancery Court decided in favor of the sellers in 2024.

In our latest episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, host Tom Firestone, head of our Government Investigations & White Collar Practice, is joined by Benjamin Nathans...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") commenced 2026 with a series of targeted actions focused on program integrity, fraud prevention, and safeguarding access to care.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Fraud Section released its 2025 Year-in-Review (YIR) last week, revealing an expanded enforcement blueprint that suggests heightened regulatory risk and more aggressive...

The goal of recent law reforms in many jurisdictions is to make it easier to hold businesses to account for offenses committed by their directors, employees, agents and other associated parties, a corporate criminal liability risk that has been developing over several years.

Corporate crime and investigations in 2026 continue to be shaped by national security and geopolitics, producing overlapping...