September 27, 2023
A New Jersey federal judge agreed Wednesday to delay the trial of two former Cognizant executives to give the government time to determine if a key witness will testify, despite objections from defense counsel who lamented discovery concessions and the energy spent in preparing for an early October start date.
September 26, 2023
The criminal trial of two former Cognizant executives accused of arranging a $2 million bribe to an Indian government official in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act may be postponed past its scheduled Oct. 3 start date over matters related to witnesses.
September 19, 2023
Prosecutors pressed a New Jersey federal court on Tuesday to exclude testimony from more than half the experts that two former Cognizant executives are using in their defense against foreign bribery charges, questioning the witnesses' qualifications and relevancy.
April 17, 2023
A New Jersey federal judge ruled Monday that Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. doesn't need to hand over notes and summaries from meetings between the company and prosecutors investigating former executives for bribery, rejecting the executives' attempts to force the company to turn them over.
January 02, 2023
As a new year of litigation dawns in New Jersey, state and federal courts have teed up for them a high-profile criminal trial, tax breaks for the gambling industry and a potential out for Uber drivers trying to keep their misclassification suit alive.
December 22, 2022
A New Jersey federal judge has unsealed requests by former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives to bar prosecutors from using certain "outsourced" evidence collected by Cognizant's in-house counsel during their criminal bribery trials, arguing that corporate counsel unfairly served as prosecutors' investigators.
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.