It’s Okay To Smell A Rat: Internal Investigations, Attorney-Client Privilege and the KBR Decision
Post-recession, we are living through an era of regulators’ grimaces and prosecutors’ giddiness. Editorialists and bloggers want business scalps, especially scalps of individuals (as opposed...
How To Avoid Being GM’ed: The Wrongs and Rights of Clients and Lawyers
The GM internal-investigation report about ignition-switch problems raises a host of issues, one of which is its unusually sharp criticism of GM internal lawyers. Criticism...
Cocktails and Crime: Martini Quiz, Vermouth Ratios, Posner v. Holmes, New Gins and Crime Conventioneers
As is customary on Friday, a few White Collar Wire notes on cocktails and crime fiction. June 19 was “World Martini Day.” Seriously. The London...
Public Corruption, Alabama, the Hurry-Up Offense and Lynyrd Skynyrd
According to the FCPA Blog, Alabama is supposedly the 6th most-corrupt state in the Union. Mississippi takes top honors. Oregon claims to be the least...
The Agatha Christie School of Cooperating Witnesses
From Lawrence S. Goldman and our friends at White Collar Crime Prof blog, a summary of a Second Circuit decision addressing (1) the extent to which...
And here, like Walker Percy, he interviews himself.
No one has ever asked me the lawyer-related questions I would like to be asked. At age fifty-three, time is passing. So, inspired by novelist Walker...
Lawyer Presentations Without PowerPoint: Charles Laughton and The Fiery Furnace
At trial in a white-collar or civil business case, lawyers sometimes complain that the material or documents they must work with are so old, so...
Subpoenas, Search Warrants and the Dead
The Grateful Dead were succinct about it: “Got a tip they’re gonna kick the door in again/I’d like to get some sleep before I travel/But...
“Isn’t pretty much everyone you represent a criminal? Why use tax money for that?” | An Interview With Federal Public Defender Kevin Butler
We took a few minutes and sat down with Kevin Butler, the Federal Public Defender in the Northern District of Alabama. Before he was appointed...
Board Room, Bored Room and the Existential Horror of Styrofoam Coffee Cups: 13 Ways to Avoid Waiving Privilege in Corporate Meetings
This discussion by Mark Herrmann at Above The Law — Law Firm Meetings Vs. Corporate Meetings, Meetings, Meeting, And Meetings! — is a wonderful set-piece about meetings. ...