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How to Start A Practice <i>What Do I Do Next?</i>
These days, we are unfortunately inundated with news of layoffs in the legal and legal marketing professions. This is a difficult time, fraught with anxiety and even fear. We are inundated, as well, with an overwhelming array of advice, which, like all advice, is only worthwhile if it fits one's personal abilities or predilections.
We have, now, literally thousands of lawyers and accountants looking for guidance through a very dark night. Most, of course, are job hunting, and the advice in that category has filled books with stuff that sometimes works, but not always. There are those who are frozen in the headlights. It seems incomprehensible that after all that education and training, there are no jobs in this wide world.
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.
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.
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.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Compliance Officers: Recent Regulatory Guidance and Enforcement Actions and Mitigating the Risk of Personal Liability
This article explores legal developments over the past year that may impact compliance officer personal liability.