All Things Investigations: Episode 37 – Privileges in Document Production with Mike Huneke
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The Issue: The UK Supreme Court was asked to decide whether section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 granted the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") powers to compel the production of documents held outside the United Kingdom. ...more
What Is A Target Letter? Federal investigations are complex, time-consuming, and often a cause of great anxiety for the individuals involved. The government has a variety of tools in its arsenal to gather preliminary...more
After three years of uncertainty over the Serious Fraud Office’s (“SFO”) powers to obtain documents located overseas, the UK Supreme Court has clarified the extraterritorial effect of the legislation facilitating that power...more
What Is the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”)? The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is a federal agency that enforces consumer protection laws and competition regulation in the United States. Its dual mission is (1) to...more
Federal authorities have recently described the threat of economic espionage from foreign entities as one of the greatest threats to the economic vitality of the United States, and this has led to an increase in...more
UK law enforcement can now obtain an order against a person in or operating in the US for the production of or access to electronic data under a new ‘landmark’ US-UK data sharing agreement. The agreement has been heralded...more
On the latest episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, Brydon DeWitt is joined by colleague Chuck James, partner and co-chair of Williams Mullen’s White Collar Litigation Practice, who will discuss what you need to...more
The Situation: In an era of sophisticated cyberattacks and data leaks, questions have been raised over whether the doctrine of legal professional privilege ("LPP") should be extended to provide clients with a legal right to...more
You know what’s helpful when you’re trying to keep a multimillion-dollar international bribery scheme going? A bachelor’s degree in finance. And, if the allegations against Omar Ambuila and his family are true, he figured out...more
The English court refused permission for claimants in English civil proceedings to disclose documents and witness statements (provided by the defendants) to the FBI for a separate U.S. criminal investigation into the...more
Brief Comments on The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 2006 - On Sept. 5, 2018, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales handed down a unanimous...more
A Canadian appellate court ruled that a lower court had jurisdictional authority to issue a production order to craigslist based upon its virtual (but not physical) presence in British Columbia. The production order requested...more
On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was issuing a new enforcement policy covering its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The...more
The prosecution of Martin Shkreli, whom the BBC has called “the most hated man in America,” reveals some important lessons about the Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure in the digital corporate context:...more
In a landmark ruling on 8 May 2017, the High Court ordered that the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (“ENRC”) should hand over to the SFO documents prepared during an internal investigation, despite the fact that the...more
The landmark ruling is the first by a federal court of appeals to address the extraterritoriality of the Stored Communications Act. Microsoft and other US-based internet service providers won a major victory on July 14...more