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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Legal privilege of corporate internal investigations under US law - 2019 caselaw update

Understanding the boundaries of legal privilege in corporate internal investigations is critical. When counsel, either internal or external, misunderstands these boundaries, the result can be disastrous....more

WilmerHale

Investigations Alert: Connolly Ruling Creates Complications for Prosecutors, Companies Seeking to Cooperate

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On May 2, 2019, a court in the Southern District of New York ruled in United States v. Connolly (16-CR-370) that statements made by an employee to outside counsel during an internal investigation were subject to certain...more

Dechert LLP

Federal Court Finds “Oral Downloads” to SEC Waived Attorney Work Product Protection

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman, in the Southern District of Florida, ruled last month that outside counsel’s “oral downloads” of internal investigation findings to the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Rethinking Independence in Internal Investigations

For a company under actual or potential government scrutiny, an independent internal investigation performed by outside counsel, sometimes coupled with cooperation with the government, can mean the difference between...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Day 9 of One Month to Better Reporting and Investigations-The Investigation Team

Beginning with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Yates Memo, its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Pilot Program and then the release of the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (Evaluation), I believe the DOJ has...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Day 2 of One Month to Better Investigations and Reporting-Selection of Investigative Counsel

A key component of this fair and objective evaluation is the WHO question; that is, who should supervise the investigation and who should handle the investigation? You should have independent counsel should handle any serious...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Lessons Learned from the Parker Drilling DPA and Ralph Lauren NPA

In the two most recent corporate Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to communicate not only what they believe constitutes a...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

M*A*S*H and Triage in Your FCPA Investigation Protocol

One of the things that I learned from the television series M*A*S*H was the need for triage. In the hospital setting, triage is the process of determining the priority of patients’ treatments based on the severity of their...more

Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation

When A Whistleblower Investigation Turns Criminal

The new SEC bounty-hunter regime, the explosion in whistleblower claims, and the increasing severity and complexity of those claims raises the specter of government investigations and criminal sanctions....more

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