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Patisserie Valerie: How the Allegations Unfolded

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Patisserie Valerie is a British patisserie and café chain. In 2018, the company found itself at the centre of an alleged accounting scandal. In 2019, Patisserie Valerie announced that its board had been notified of accounting...more

Kilpatrick

What To Do When Your Contractual Counterparty Gets Mired in a Public Scandal

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A hypothetical: you are in-house counsel, and one morning you click on your daily news only to see one of your company’s key contractual counterparties is trending, and not in a good way. The contractual counterparty has...more

Jones Day

JONES DAY TALKS®: Operation Varsity Blues and the Need for Internal Controls at Academic Institutions

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As the infamous college admissions scandal unraveled, it became clear that aside from the illegal activities of the defendants – who included the principal of an admissions consulting firm, coaches and staff at certain...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Foul Balls and Red Cards: How Baseball and Soccer’s Different Approaches to Cheating Illustrate the Power of Organizational...

This spring, two major sports teams were caught cheating. Both are consistent championship contenders in recent years. In the United States, hardly any sports fan could have missed the report released by Major League...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

De-Stealth Your Potential Juror

Harvey Weinstein goes to trial this week. Out of approximately eighty women accusing the former Hollywood mogul of sexual misconduct over the past few decades, two assault cases will be heard by a jury this week in Manhattan....more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Nonprofit Crisis Case Studies: Tips for Crisis Planning

When it comes to crisis communications, nonprofits must be just as prepared as any for-profit company. A nonprofit and its success rely entirely on the trust its target audience has in its mission and work. In an article from...more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Protect Yourself from Phishing Scams, Effective Attorney Bios, and Best Use of LinkedIn

While I recently published this, I cannot stress the importance of due diligence and care before clicking on links in emails. Phishing scams are out of control. If you do nothing else, hover over any links before clicking....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose Of Financial News

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We were pretty sure that the Fed would keep interest rates steady as it wrapped its Open Market Committee meetings yesterday, and Fed Chair Powell delivered on that expectation. He also admitted that the same lack of...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Principal in talks to acquire Well Fargo’s 401(k) Business

The word on the street is that Principal Financial Group Inc is in talks to acquire Wells Fargo & Co’s retirement plan services business, in a deal that could exceed $1 billion....more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Admissions Scandals Require Action to Protect Integrity

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Admissions scandals that involve fraud by athletic coaches, officials at college entrance examination companies, and many others are trending in the news. While the media has given much attention to the motives and unlawful...more

Hanzo

Cambridge Analytica Shook Up the Way We View Data Privacy—and Ediscovery Collections

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After 2018, companies may never view online data collection in the same way again. Just as the world was turning its attention to the importance of protecting individuals’ data privacy, Facebook stumbled into a series of...more

King & Spalding

The "Corruption Notebooks" Scandal in Argentina Gets Attention from U.S. Enforcement Authorities

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Argentina’s corruption notebooks scandal is just as it sounds—a scandal initiated by eight notebooks documenting at least seven years of elaborate corruption schemes involving senior officials in Argentina’s government. The...more

Jackson Walker

New Tax Act Affects Settlements of Sexual Harassment Suits

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has a special provision that addresses the recent concerns growing out of Harvey Weinstein and other scandals related to sexual harassment and abuse. Specifically, the Tax Act addresses the concern...more

NAVEX

The Importance of Trust in the Age of Weaponized Transparency

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In my last post about organizational trust, we looked at lessons learned about trust from one of the largest organizations of all: the U.S. military. The main concept was that in large organizations, senior executives should...more

NAVEX

Judged by the Company You Keep

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Earlier this month news broke that the venerable British automaker Rolls-Royce had settled an international prosecution alleging that the company’s third-party intermediaries bribed local officials in Asia. The company agreed...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Business Litigation Alert: "Lesson Learned from Wells Fargo - What Your Board of Directors Needs to Know"

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According to recent news reports, Wells Fargo management created an aggressive sales culture that encouraged employees to create thousands of fake accounts. News reports also suggest that the Board took no action regarding...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

A Bitter Pill for Ex-Rite Aid GC: Delaware Court Finds His 2015 Suit for Indemnification Untimely

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Remember 2002? That year, A Beautiful Mind won best picture, and the University of Maryland won the NCAA basketball tournament. It is also the year that Rite Aid and its former General Counsel, Franklin Brown, began...more

Jackson Walker

Sex and the Stock Photo*

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Despite the high heat of summer, two federal courts have blown a chill wind through the law of online defamation. The courts gave the green light to libel suits over alleged implications from stock or file photos illustrating...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments for May 2016

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more

NAVEX

2016 Trends #5: The Wide World of Sports

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If 2016 is anything like last year, we can count on the world of sports to provide a variety of fodder for ethics and compliance discussions. Sports scandals now rival political and business ethics scandals as the...more

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Goldman Sachs Cheating Scandal: Lessons for Your Compliance Training Program

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The recent Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan cheating scandals teach us some valuable lessons about compliance training. In these headline cases, newly hired junior analysts were caught cheating on internal compliance-related tests...more

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Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Speaks to Troubled Culture

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Too many organizations learn the hard way that failure to create a speak-up culture poses risks that go far beyond financial calamity. Volkswagen (VW) appears likely joining those sad ranks today, as it scrambles to figure...more

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