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Last Thursday, Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP showed support at the Meet & Greet Fundraiser for Hoop Like This: The India Rising Story, a film following the journey of an All-Indian basketball team as they compete in ESPN’s $1M Tournament and pave the way for the next generation of Brown Ballers.?The film features the best South Asian basketball players and prominent sports figures from around the globe, including WMHW paralegal Sarju Patel, and highlights the impact Sarju and his teammates have made in the community.?To support the independent filmmakers producing this inspiring story, you can donate at the link in the comments below.

Congratulations to Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP Partner Barry Rashkover on being named to Securities Docket’s “Enforcement Elite” for 2024. The list features “the best securities enforcement defense counsel in the industry” who are “the kind of defensive specialists critical to have on speed-dial should the SEC’s Division of Enforcement come calling.” Click below to learn more.

ICYMI, Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP Partner Dan Miller appeared on Medical Legal Connection’s livestream with Tim Kane RN to discuss whistleblowing in the healthcare space. Visit the WMHW Whistleblower website below to learn more. https://lnkd.in/eRqifp_n

Newsweek featured Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP Partner Jake Gardener and the class action lawsuit filed by WMHW and Pollock | Cohen LLP this week. ? "’It costs these patients not just money but precious time to find necessary care,’ Gardener said in a statement. ‘And that is for the lucky ones: just imagine the anguish parents must go through when they cannot find affordable, qualified care for their children.’” ? Click below to read more.

Click below to read our Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP Client Alert authored by Barry Rashkover, Paul W. Ryan, and Mary Diaz. On October 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged four technology companies with making inadequate disclosures related to the December 2020 discovery that SolarWinds Corp. had been a victim of a largescale cyberattack believed to have been conducted by state-sponsored Russian hackers.?According to the SEC’s October 22, 2024 press release, during 2020 and 2021, these four companies learned “that the threat actor likely behind the SolarWinds Orion hack had accessed their systems without authorization, but each negligently minimized its cybersecurity incident in its public disclosures.” [1]?The SEC’s cases, charging violations of Sections 17(a)(2) and 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act, Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act, and Rules 12b-20 and 13a-13 thereunder, are the first against users of the impacted SolarWinds product. ?They represent a somewhat controversial set of enforcement actions in the SEC’s rocky response to the SolarWinds hack.?

BREAKING NEWS: Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP Partner Jim Walden has announced his campaign for Mayor of NYC! The Firm is in full support of Jim as he embarks on this new chapter.

Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP and Pollock | Cohen LLP File Class Action Lawsuit Against Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York Yesterday, WMHW and Pollock Cohen filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of patients against Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of New York. The lawsuit alleges the health insurance company perpetrated fraud by publishing an inaccurate directory of doctors who supposedly accepted BCBS insurance but, in fact, did not. These misleading directories – known as “ghost networks” – cause patients significant financial harm because patients in need of treatment must go to out-of-network to get care and incur substantial expenses. They also cause significant delays in people finding essential care and often abandoning care because they cannot find in-network doctors who actually accept the insurance. “People in desperate need of medical care are intentionally being misled by their insurance company,” said WMHW Partner Jake Gardener and co-counsel for the plaintiffs. “It costs these patients not just money but precious time to find necessary care. And that is for the lucky ones: just imagine the anguish parents must go through when they cannot find affordable, qualified care for their children.” Click below to learn more.

Congratulations to Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP Partner Avni Patel on being named to City & State New York’s 2024 NYC 40 Under 40 list, which celebrates the rising stars of city politics and government. The list “highlights a remarkable group of young leaders who are not wasting time – or waiting around to make their marks in the public, private and nonprofit sectors in New York City. The annual feature identifies 40 individuals, all under the age of 40, who have already amassed impressive track records that few achieve in the course of an entire career.” Click below to read more.

Legal Outreach Program Students Shine at Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP Moot Court This past Tuesday, the WMHW Diversity & Inclusion Committee hosted a Moot Court Competition for high-school students from Legal Outreach, an educational program that provides academic support and professional opportunities to the youth from underserved neighborhoods in New York City.?Prepared by WMHW’s Amanda Senske and Angela Saidman, the 2024 Moot Court Competition involved an oral argument on a motion to suppress evidence in a criminal trial. The students played the roles of prosecutor and defense attorney, arguing whether or not certain evidence obtained by the police could be admitted at trial based on exceptions to the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment warrant requirement.?The students advanced compelling arguments and displayed their preparation and teamwork as they presented their arguments before WMHW partners Sean Haran and Milton Williams, who acted as mock judges. Congratulations to all our student participants and thank you to our attorney coaches Jeffrey Udell, Georgia Winston, John Curran, Veronica Maria W., Paul W. Ryan, Johnson Lin, Christopher Dioguardi, and James Meehan.?WMHW is proud to be a sponsor of the Legal Outreach Program, and we look forward to hosting future events and continuing to support the students’ career aspirations and goals.