Shareholder Daniel Alter of our FinTech & Blockchain Practice details why the recent New York State Department of Financial Services’ approval of the issuance, sale, and trading of a tokenized ownership interest in gold bars by Paxos in a significant regulatory milestone in an expert analysis article he wrote for The WLF Legal Pulse.

Daniel Payne, a shareholder in Murphy & McGonigle’s Richmond office and a member of its leading FinTech & Blockchain Practice, has been named to the “Up & Coming Lawyers” list by Virginia Lawyers Weekly.

A compelling panel of cybersecurity experts from government and industry will be speaking on a topic of increasing importance to companies and boards at the upcoming Murphy & McGonigle Breakfast CLE program.

Lawyers from the financial services law firm Murphy & McGonigle have been widely recognized in the 2020 Best Lawyers in America listing, announced today by Best Lawyers. Chairman and Co-Founder James Murphy has been named ‘Lawyer of the Year’ for Securities Regulation (Richmond, VA), and eight other lawyers have been recognized as Best Lawyers in America, many of them in multiple practice areas.

In an example of the “Wild West” cryptocurrency industry continuing to be tamed, a law firm out of Virginia has created the first database of judicial cases in order to help the legal community gather resources in an effort to prosecute crypto-centered criminals and further clean up the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Blockchain Litigation Database (BLD) brings together into one central repository all crypto cases from across different jurisdictions in order to allow an easy search of data in building court cases.

Noting that “law firms are increasingly becoming involved in the development of technology,” resulting in “a new kind of law firm that looks as much like a fintech startup as a legal outlet,” Forbes covers Murphy & McGonigle’s innovative Blockchain Litigation Database.