Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

When a tiny thrift bank in New York’s Chinatown vowed to fight fraud charges brought by Manhattan’s powerful district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., it was Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP that helped steer it to vindication following a four-month trial, an achievement that established the firm as having one of Law360’s White Collar Practice Groups of the Year. Law360: ...

Steptoe & Johnson LLP’s lawyers knew all along that former BP Gulf of Mexico exploration chief David Rainey was innocent. Targeted over the truth of public statements after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Rainey still had to convince a jury — and the way his lawyers at Steptoe went about it landed them among Law360’s White Collar Practice Groups of the ...

Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC persuaded a jury to acquit Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s former chairman of criminal charges following a grueling, four-month trial, then struck a favorable deferred prosecution deal, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s White Collar Practice Groups of the Year for 2015. Law360: acquitted