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Understanding the Importance of Preserving Historical Financial Data
The hours have been billed, the client invoiced and the payment recorded, what happens next in your firm? Does your financial management software preserve a detailed financial history? For many firms, once an invoice has been collected in full, the process of utilizing the associated data stops ' a hard copy of the invoice is filed and the numbers lie dormant in the financial system. This scenario is problematic because it does not allow for long-term flexibility in accessing and manipulating the data for best practices and/or analysis purposes.
The truth is, many financial systems ' even those designed in the last few years ' don't maintain enough historic detail to solve tomorrow's problems. Why? Financial systems are transactional databases that are primarily designed to process transactions rapidly. In order to save database storage space and improve operating performance, the millions of rows of detailed data associated with billing are often discarded when an invoice is generated or paid in full, at month's end or at year's end. At that point, ad-hoc analysis is nearly impossible without custom programming or report writer specialists, unless the specific report desired was envisioned and configured in advance. How many times have you attempted to generate a report from your time and billing system only to stop because the information wasn't readily available in a usable format?
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.
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.
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.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
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.