Okay, So It’s A Lurid Book Cover: Summer Weekend Cocktails, Dylan Thomas on YouTube, Good Writing and Great Music
Our notes for Friday, beginning with cocktails; moving through literature; ending with music. Brown Whisky Is Not Just For Winter. From the New York Times,...
Internal Investigations, the KBR Decision and International Investigations
In a recent post, we touched on the importance of the D.C. Circuit’s decision in KBR concerning privilege and internal investigations: Post-recession, we are living through...
“Compensation” | Paul Laurence Dunbar
Compensation is a matter dear to lawyers’ hearts, white-collar and otherwise. Here’s a poem (via www.poets.org) by Paul Laurence Dunbar: Compensation Because I had loved...
“Appellate Jurisdiction” | Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
For pondering our appeals of all sorts. Appellate Jurisdiction by Marianne Moore Fragments of sin are a part of me. New brooms shall sweep...
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...