Integrity Oversight & Investigations

• Phillips Nizer’s Alan Behr and Charles P. LaPolla Recognized in the 2026 Edition of the WTR 1000

  1/5/2026

  Phillips Nizer LLP is pleased to announce that Alan Behr and Charles P. LaPolla have been recognized in the 2026 edition of the World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, a leading global guide to the world’s top trademark professionals.

• Phillips Nizer White Collar Practice Chair Ilene Jaroslaw is quoted in Law360 article: Loughlin's 'Sweetheart' Deal May Spark 'Varsity Blues' Pleas

  05/22/2020

  Ilene Jaroslaw, a former federal prosecutor and the chair of Phillips Nizer LLP's white collar and investigations practice group, said the agreed-upon sentences for Loughlin and Giannulli, which are far lower than some of the terms suggested by the government in other "Varsity Blues" cases, could encourage parents with perhaps stronger cases to sit down with the government and see how much better they could do. 

• Ilene Jaroslaw is quoted in New Jersey Law Journal:  Justices Unanimously Overturn Bridgegate Convictions, Ruling Against Feds

  05/12/2020

  The ruling means fewer tools are available to federal prosecutors to rein in corruption and abuse of power by public officials, said Ilene Jaroslaw, head of the white-collar group at Phillips Nizer and a former prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York.

  “The court held today that public officials cannot be guilty of federal wire fraud or government-programs fraud unless the corrupt state actor’s objective is to obtain money or property.  Merely implementing bad policy out of venality or other bad motives does not violate these federal criminal statutes,” Jaroslaw said.

• Ilene Jaroslaw is interviewed by Fox 5 New York: Convictions thrown out for Christie aides Baroni, Kelly

  05/12/2020
• Ilene Jaroslaw is quoted in Law360:  Stay In Your Lane, High Court Tells Feds in Bridgegate

  05/12/2020

  Ilene Jaroslaw, a former prosecutor and chair of Phillips Nizer LLP's white collar practice group, said the case again highlights a potential gap in federal corruption law that left the court no choice but to overturn convictions for conduct widely deemed unacceptable.
  
  "These Supreme Court cases are very good in telling us where our current statutory system is lacking," Jaroslaw said. "Maybe if we want those norms and ethics to prevail, we need a new set of statutes."

• Ilene Jaroslaw comments on Law360's Biggest White Collar Cases of 2019

  12/20/2019 | https://www.law360.com/articles/1216202/the-biggest-white-collar-cases-of-2019

  One of the biggest cases of 2019 was one nobody expected: the March indictment of dozens of parents and university coaches for their parts in a national scheme to trick colleges into admitting students on false pretenses.
  
   

• Media - "Michael Flynn re-emerges as major witness in Robert Mueller's inquiry – and at least two others," (USA Today, December 6, 2018)

  12/06/2018 | USA Today
• Media - "Mueller Just Drew A Direct Line Between Trump's Business and the Kremlin," (VICE News, November 29, 2018)

  11/29/2018 | VICE News
• Media - "What Paul Manafort's highly unusual move to brief Trump's team on his discussions with Mueller reveals about his strategy," (Business Insider, November 27, 2018)

  11/27/2018 | Business Insider
• Media - "Takeaways From the Conviction of Paul Manafort," (The New York Times, August 21, 2018)

  08/21/2018 | The New York Times
• Media - "Paul Manafort’s tax- and bank-fraud case is heading to the jury," (The Washington Post, August 15, 2018)

  08/15/2018 | The Washington Post