Grace C.Signorelli-Cassady

Associate Grace Signorelli-Cassady will speak on a panel on artificial intelligence in Indian Country during Wiring the REZ at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on September 26.

In a recent article for the American Bar Association’s Securities Ligation Journal, Partners Tony Barkow, Gabi Gillett, and Charles Riely, along with Associates Grace Signorelli-Cassady and Kelsey Stimple, discuss the decision made in SEC v. Fierro which may put private funds, insurers, mutual funds, and others that buy and sell securities at risk.

A broad array of financial market participants—mutual funds, private funds, insurers, pension funds, family offices, individuals, and more—may be at risk after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) secured summary judgment in a case alleging an individual and an affiliated entity acted as unregistered securities dealers when they bought and sold securities for their own account.[1]

Several Jenner & Block lawyers contributed to the latest edition of The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, published by Global Investigations Review. The guide is for external and in-house counsel, compliance officers, and accounting practitioners.

Managing IP honored a Jenner & Block team led by Partners Debbie L. Berman and Wade A. Thomson for their appellate victory on behalf of client Hetronic International in a trademark and trade secrets dispute. The victory won in the “Impact Case of the Year” category at an event on April 7 in New York. The Managing IP Awards celebrate the firms, individuals, and companies behind the most innovative and challenging intellectual property work, as well as those driving the international IP market.

Jenner & Block Partner Rachel K. Alpert and Associate Grace C. Signorelli-Cassady discuss the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in a recent Law360 article. In the piece, they explain the presumption prohibiting entry of all items from Xinjiang and what companies can expect from the US strategy to prevent items produced using forced labor in China from being imported.

Over the past few years, the US government has increased scrutiny of products imported into the United States in an effort to combat the use of forced labor and other human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang). Following a number of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Withhold Release Orders (WROs) and associated detentions of goods potentially associated with Xinjiang, proposed legislation that would further expand such CBP enforcement, and an updated Xinji

On April 5, Jenner & Block filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Bar Association (ABA) in Shannon Daves, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. in support of Plaintiffs’ challenge to Dallas County’s money bail system, wherein judges treated pre-set money bail amounts as binding and set bail in closed-door proceedings that lasted under 30 seconds.

Several Jenner & Block lawyers contributed to the latest edition of The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, published by Global Investigations Review. The guide is for external and in-house counsel, compliance officers, and accounting practitioners.

In Greer v. United States of America, the Eleventh Circuit, applying plain error review, reaffirmed Petitioner’s conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Eleventh Circuit’s decision, however, followed an intervening legal change that required that the prosecution prove Petitioner’s knowledge of his felony status. And although the prosecution had not introduced evidence of this element at Petitioner’s trial, the Eleventh Circuit nonetheless reaffirmed Petitioner’s conviction

In Cordell Sanders v. Michael Melvin, et al., the district court dismissed a plaintiff’s entire case as a sanction based on imprecise allegations the plaintiff — who is mentally ill and had been housed in solitary confinement for years—had included in their years-old, pro se complaint, and did so despite that a pending summary judgment motion showed a factual dispute regarding those allegations. This dismissal is now on appeal.  

During his second week in office, President Biden issued an additional tranche of 12 official presidential actions, several of which rescinded actions by the Trump Administration. Our team’s analysis of President Biden’s week-one executive actions can be found here. The Biden Administration’s executive orders (EOs) and other presidential actions in week two are focused on slowing the spread of COVID-19, increasing access to health care for underserved communities, and creating a whole of gover

Published annually by Jenner & Block’s Investigations, Compliance and Defense team, this 2020 Year in Review provides a comprehensive analysis of developments international anti-corruption laws and practice over the last 12 months. This update includes a new deep dive on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement trends, including charts and visualizations of key statistics, as well as chapters on SEC enforcement, corporate criminal liability in the United Kingdom, the impact of the COVI

On January 1, 2021, Congress made several important changes to the US securities laws that will impact the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) ability to pursue and recover funds through disgorgement.

In Van Buren v. United States, the US Supreme Court will soon resolve a circuit split concerning an important computer crime law known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Depending on how it is decided, the case may have several important impacts beyond the criminal space. For one, it may have broad potential consequences for how domestic businesses, websites, and tech companies handle access and use restrictions at work, on social media platforms, in the computer security space, and in any oth

An updated version of this alert was published on January 8, 2021. Please find it here.

The Guide analyzes significant developments in anti-corruption laws and practice from 2019 and early 2020.  Readers will find an overview of the FCPA and the UKBA, descriptions of new policies and their implications, and answers to questions that may be pertinent to companies operating in the international marketplace.  Twenty-four lawyers from across offices authored The Guide.