Lathrop B. Nelson, III is a partner in the Litigation Department at Montgomery McCracken. His practice concentrates on complex commercial litigation and government investigations and white collar crime. Lathrop received a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2001 and a B.A. degree, cum laude, in History and Politics from Washington and Lee University in 1997.
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Second Circuit Vacates Sheldon Silver’s Conviction: Parsing Official Act “Quids” and “Quos”
Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction of Sheldon Silver, the former Speaker of the New York State Assembly, concluding that the court’s jury instructions regarding the “official act” element of honest services fraud and Hobbs Act extortion were erroneous in light… Read More