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Compliance Readiness Dealing With Your Company's Employees In Connection With An External Investigation : Effective Strategies For Maximizing Success And Cooperation-Part II
Corporations can act only through people; as corporate counsel, you know only too well how true this familiar axiom is and how it can play out in the life of your company. Your company relies every day on people to be its public face and its public voice, and by far the largest segment of the...
Read MoreProject: Corporate Counsel Part II (Unintended Consequences) - Law Firms When The SEC Comes Knocking: What Corporate Counsel Needs To Know About Initiating An Internal Investigation In Response To An Inquiry By The Securities And Exchange Commission
Day after day we read: "Company X To Settle SEC Charges." Simply substitute "Company X" for the company of the day, or perhaps a few of the company's officers or directors, and you have tomorrow's headline. Despite their similarities, each of these headlines has its own story which began with an...
Read MoreCorporate Internal Investigations In The 21st Century: Proceed With Caution
The internal investigation has become a well-accepted feature of the corporate legal landscape over the last 25 years. Building upon the Supreme Court's decision in Upjohn Co. v. United States, 449 U.S. 383 (1981), courts accorded more and more protection to the corporation's lawyers in conducting...
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