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2019 crisis leadership in review

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What starts online won't stop there - There aren't many college basketball games that change the share price of a Fortune 100 company. But in February 2019, Duke University freshman star Zion Williamson blew out one of his...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Revenge of the Whistle-blower: Possible Consequences of Compliance Failures

In a company with a robust compliance culture, potential whistleblowers can express their concerns without fear of retribution. By contrast, the penalty for a culture that silences whistleblowers just got steeper. Companies...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Can a Company's Founder and CEO Use Company Documents to Support His "Advice of Counsel" Defense After the Company Declares...

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Courts agree that bankruptcy trustees control bankrupt companies' attorney-client privilege. It is easy to underestimate this basic principle's strength. In SEC v. Present, Civ. No. 14-14692-LTS, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Recorded Conversations with In-House Counsel Permitted as Evidence in FCPA Trial

Earlier this month, a federal judge in New Jersey held that a secretly recorded conversation between a former chief executive officer and his general counsel may be used by prosecutors as evidence against the former executive...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Southern District of New York Orders Chevron CEO and General Counsel to Testify in RICO Suit Related to $18 Billion Ecuadorian...

On May 14, 2013, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New York affirmed a magistrate judge's decision denying plaintiff Chevron Corporation's ("Chevron's") motion to quash deposition notices for Chevron CEO John...more

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