The Privatization of Prosecution is a Growing Trend in the Legal World

In today's corporate world, transparency is huge. No longer can companies hide key information from consumers. As a result, many tasks that were previously done by outsiders—publishing and media coverage, for example—have now gone in-house. Included in that bunch: prosecution. Take Penn State's Freeh Report, for example. Companies and institutions are quick to prosecute themselves because, at the end of the day, it look better than someone else doing so. Hinshaw & Culbertson attorney Lee Smith, author on their White Collar Crime & See more +

In today's corporate world, transparency is huge. No longer can companies hide key information from consumers. As a result, many tasks that were previously done by outsiders—publishing and media coverage, for example—have now gone in-house. Included in that bunch: prosecution. Take Penn State's Freeh Report, for example. Companies and institutions are quick to prosecute themselves because, at the end of the day, it look better than someone else doing so. Hinshaw & Culbertson attorney Lee Smith, author on their White Collar Crime & Internal Investigations Blog, joins me today to discuss the growing trend. See less -