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Government Secret Recording of Interviews Rarely In Best Interests of Witness Image

Government Secret Recording of Interviews Rarely In Best Interests of Witness

Joel Cohen

Secretly recording conversations or interviews is a dirty business, and it is almost never conducted by the government with the best interests of the witness in mind.

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Sorting Through the Trump Financial Documents: How Prosecutors Will Search for Clues

Nicholas Gaffney

A Q&A with Bobby Malhotra, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles

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Best Practices for Investigations In Remote Environments

Colin Jennings, David Meadows, Nicole Wells & John Winkler

The landscape of corporate investigations has changed dramatically in the last year. New regulations, new market pressures, new data sources and more challenging…

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Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations

Elkan Abramowitz & Jonathan S. Sack

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.

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Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets CFAA to Avoid Criminalizing 'Commonplace Computer Activity' Image

Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets CFAA to Avoid Criminalizing 'Commonplace Computer Activity'

Patricia Kim & Maren Messing

The Court held that only those who obtain information from particular areas of the computer which they are not authorized to access can be said to "exceed authorization."

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Is a Federal Insider Trading Law Coming?

David L. Axelrod & Hannah L. Welsh

For decades the SEC and the Department of Justice, with the endorsement of federal judges, have used the general securities fraud statutes to patch together a complex and problematic insider trading common law. After years of criticism, however, that could now be changing.

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Fifth Amendment Protection of Cellphone Passwords Remains Murky As Supreme Court Declines to Weigh In Image

Fifth Amendment Protection of Cellphone Passwords Remains Murky As Supreme Court Declines to Weigh In

Robert J. Anello & Richard F. Albert

When law enforcement seeks to compel a subject to provide a passcode to allow them to rummage through a cellphone, courts have not spoken with a unified voice. Some, including New Jersey's highest court, have arrived at the dubious conclusion that requiring an individual to communicate cellphone passcodes to the government does not warrant Fifth Amendment protection. Commentators had hoped that the U.S. Supreme Court would reject that expansive view, however, the Supreme Court declined to wade in, seemingly guaranteeing that continued uncertainty on this critical issue will continue to bedevil criminal practitioners.

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Second Circuit May Address SEC's 'Tolling Agreements' Tool

Tom McParland

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit signaled last month that it may fully address, for the first time, the question of whether a decades-old change to federal law rendered a commonly used tool for extending U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigations unenforceable in federal court.

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Developments in Federal Whistleblowing Programs: What Compliance Officers Need to Know

Jonathan B. New, Patrick T. Campbell & Lauren Lyster

This article examines recent developments and trends concerning federal whistleblower programs that compliance officers need to know and provides best practices recommendations for ensuring that your company maintains a robust whistleblower and anti-retaliation program in light of increased whistleblower activity.

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OFAC Asks Non-U.S. Persons to Advance U.S. Foreign Policy Image

OFAC Asks Non-U.S. Persons to Advance U.S. Foreign Policy

Harry Sandick & Gautam Rao

In recent years, U.S. prosecutors and regulators have shown increasing interest in prosecuting people and entities with little or no connection to the United States. This trend has been especially pronounced in the context of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and has also extended beyond the FCPA to the prosecution of white-collar crime more generally.

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