Police Review and Independent Counsel
Police department investigations....
Impeachment, Ukraine, and The Midnight Special
The Midnight Special at any hour....
Summer of Love to Altamont Murder: Innocence, Guilt and Corporate Compliance In A Kavanaugh Era
The recent furor over the nomination and confirmation of Judge (now Justice) Brett Kavanaugh puts us in mind of a messy truth for companies and...
Steve Wynn Woes: Independent Investigations and the Board of Directors
Four minutes on internal investigations and independent counsel, especially in a “#MeToo” environment: ...
The Yates Memo and Three Dog Night
Deputy Attorney General YatesUnless you have been on a monastic retreat or hidden as carefully as Hillary Clinton’s email server, you have by now likely...
Dear Colleagues All: University Discipline, Sexual Assault and The Department of Education
Title IX. Crime. Sexual assault. University disciplinary procedures. Civil litigation. Enormous amounts of money. The Fifth Amendment. And that’s all before you hire a lawyer....
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...
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...