USA v. COBURN et al

  1. August 12, 2022

    Alston & Bird Fights Ex-Cognizant Exec's Claim Of Atty 'Taint'

    An Alston & Bird LLP attorney on Thursday joined in the government's bid to prevent the former chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. from revisiting his objections to her representation of the company in his corruption case.

  2. August 10, 2022

    Ex-Cognizant CLO Says Feds Can't Silence Atty Taint Claims

    The former chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. urged a New Jersey federal court Wednesday to reject the government's attempt to stop him from raising objections in his corruption case over the role of an Alston & Bird LLP attorney after he dropped a bid to disqualify the lawyer from representing the company.

  3. May 05, 2022

    Cognizant Must Hand Over Docs In Ex-Execs' Bribery Case

    A New Jersey federal judge has ordered Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. to hand over troves of documents from an internal corruption investigation to a pair of indicted former executives who are accused of arranging a $2 million bribe in exchange for a construction permit in India.

  4. July 21, 2021

    New Jersey Cases To Watch In 2021: A Midyear Report

    The New Jersey legal industry is poised to receive guidance on arbitration, discovery and litigation time limits as they apply to employment law thanks to cases that advanced during the first half of 2021, including a former state official's whistleblower lawsuit over COVID-19 testing and gender discrimination claims against Fox Rothschild LLP.

  5. June 16, 2021

    Ex-Cognizant Execs Want Cooperator's Bribery Probe Docs

    Two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives charged with foreign bribery are seeking to force an Indian conglomerate to hand over information that could help clear their names, arguing that a New Jersey federal court has jurisdiction over the conglomerate because it cooperated with U.S. investigators.

  6. March 16, 2020

    'Outsourcing' Ruling Will Remain Outlier If Judges Don't Bite

    It has been nearly a year since a federal judge shook the status quo in the white collar bar by ruling that prosecutors had improperly "outsourced" an investigation to Paul Weiss, but attempts by defendants in other cases to get a similar ruling face a high bar, including convincing judges to grant access to key evidence.

  7. February 19, 2020

    Ex-Cognizant Execs Lose Bid To Ditch FCPA Charges

    A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday rejected bids to dismiss Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation charges by two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives accused of bribing Indian officials.

  8. January 28, 2020

    Ex-Cognizant Execs' Case Raises Novel FCPA Issues

    A New Jersey federal court waded into unknown legal territory Tuesday in a case against two former executives at Cognizant, considering whether every email involved in an alleged bribery scheme should be a separate violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

  9. December 18, 2019

    Ex-Legal Chief Says Cognizant Withholding Defense Atty Fees

    Data technology firm Cognizant is flouting its obligations under an employment agreement to pay for its former chief legal officer's defense against foreign bribery charges, the attorney told a Delaware court Monday.

  10. February 15, 2019

    Ex-Cognizant Execs Charged With $2M Indian Bribe Scheme

    Federal prosecutors and regulators handed down parallel criminal and civil charges on Friday for the former president and chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., accusing them of participating in a scheme to bribe an Indian official $2 million for permission to move forward on a construction project.