The recent appellate court decision in Microsoft Corp. v. United States, No. 14-2985, slip op. (2d Cir. July 14, 2016) (Microsoft Ireland), represents an important setback for the U.S. government’s aggressive extraterritorial...more
On September 9, 2015, Sally Quillian Yates, the Deputy Attorney General, issued a memorandum announcing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new guidelines regarding its intensifying focus on individual wrongdoers in the context...more
On July 30, 2015, Andrew Weissman, the chief of the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division, announced that the DOJ is in the process of hiring a former prosecutor to serve as a full-time...more