August 12, 2022
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.
August 10, 2022
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.
May 05, 2022
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.
July 21, 2021
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.
June 16, 2021
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.
March 16, 2020
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.
February 19, 2020
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.
January 28, 2020
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.
December 18, 2019
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.
February 15, 2019
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.