Bloomberg Law
July 22, 2015, 9:27 PM UTC

Judge Declines to Boot Skadden, Despite Alleged Conflicts

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

A federal judge in Santa Ana ruled on Tuesday that Skadden Arps should not be disqualified from defending a former medical device company executive on criminal insider trading charges, despite suggesting a lawyer in the case committed “perjury.”

In an 11-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford stopped short of naming who was responsible for perjury, and concluded that regardless of the complex facts at issue, Skadden could remain in the case.

“This Court has long been concerned about false statements under oath,” Guilford wrote, dropping a footnote to a law review article he authored on the subject, “but here the right of a criminal defendant to ...

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