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Resultor LLC has announced the release of Resultor Direct & Confidential, which is designed to help publicly traded companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's requirement to provide an anonymous and confidential procedure for employees to surface accounting issues for the audit committee. It is the only Sarbanes-Oxley disclosure product that also promotes a corporate culture encouraging legal and ethical practices and better business results. Resultor Direct & Confidential is a simple, Internet-based feedback system that can be used directly from a desktop or a home computer. It allows employees to actively contribute sensitive information, while helping companies evaluate the information and act on it as necessary. Employees can offer their feedback anonymously. The audit committee and the submitter can communicate anonymously and confidentially, and submitters can follow the progress of their feedback anonymously, from start to resolution. The product not only meets the new legal requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but it ensures problems are corrected quickly and business is conducted in accordance with the highest standards. For more information please visit www.resultor.com.
Fios, Inc., a provider of electronic discovery services, and Engenium, Corp., a concept-based search technology company, have announced a licensing partnership. The agreement will bring Engenium's advanced search technology, Semetric, to Fios' Web-based electronic discovery tool, Prevail. The combined solution will make Fios the first and only full-service electronic discovery provider to offer advanced, concept-based searching capabilities. The concept-based search technology being added to Prevail will enable users to organize unstructured information by mapping relationships between each word and every other word in large sets of documents. This association of words based on the context in which they are used creates a form of numeric 'meaning' and 'understanding,' enabling legal teams to quickly identify relevant documents and related concepts within vast amounts of data even when those documents do not share any words with a query. For more information please visit www.fiosinc.com or www.engenium.com.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
How AI Has Affected PR
When we consider how the use of AI affects legal PR and communications, we have to look at it as an industrywide global phenomenon. A recent online conference provided an overview of the latest AI trends in public relations, and specifically, the impact of AI on communications. Here are some of the key points and takeaways from several of the speakers, who provided current best practices, tips, concerns and case studies.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.