News & Press Releases

David Siegal wrote this column. The piece notes that white-collar attorneys will continue to employ the attorney proffer to advance their clients’ interests in responding to investigations, even while on occasion accepting the consequence of some limited waiver of privilege over the facts they strategically divulge.

Larry Freedman was quoted in a Law 360 article regarding a new Justice Department policy that prevents guidance documents from being used as a basis for bringing civil enforcement actions. The policy may lessen the risk of catastrophic punitive damages, particularly in False Claims Act cases.

ML Strategies is pleased to announce Stephen J. Silveira, Senior Vice President, has been appointed to serve on the Commission on the Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth. Governor Charlie Baker made the announcement on January 23, 2018.

Stephen Silveira a Senior Vice President of ML Strategies, was appointed by Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker to a commission to address the state’s transportation needs through the next twenty years.  The committee is charged with developing a range of anticipated scenarios during those decades.

Joshua Briones, Managing Member of Mintz’s LA office, and Ralph Campillo, a Member in the firm’s Litigation practice, were named among the fifty most influential minority attorneys by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Litigation Members Joe Blute, Ralph Campillo and Yalonda Howze are featured in this piece, along with four in-house counsel, discussing the current state of product liability exposures and related litigation. The piece further discusses strategies for manufacturers to minimize product liability exposure, how best to handle discovery, the role testimony from company witnesses plays, among other hot topics.