Chambers USA ranks Friedman Kaplan in the “Elite” sections of the General Commercial Litigation and White Collar Crime and Government Investigations categories in New York and in New Jersey’s White Collar Crime and Government Investigations table. Ten Friedman Kaplan attorneys are also individually recognized, with Eric Seiler, Edward Friedman, Anne Beaumont, and Jason Rubinstein ranked for their commercial litigation practices and Mary Mulligan, Eric Corngold, Mala Ahuja Harker, Rahul Agarwal, Tim Haggerty, and Bonnie Baker recognized for their white collar defense practices. More

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was recently arrested by federal agents, detained, and charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey by criminal complaint with trespassing at a migrant detention facility in Newark. Friedman Kaplan partner Rahul Agarwal, along with co-counsel Raymond Brown and Wanda Akin, defended Mayor Baraka, ultimately securing the dismissal, with prejudice, of the charge, in just under two weeks. More