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Searching For What Matters
The volume of e-data subject to discovery continues to grow ' seemingly exponentially. As courts, parties and litigators become more conscious of the importance of this data and more adept at ensuring its availability during litigation and regulatory matters, managing the data has become a more significant challenge for the producing and requesting parties. Clearly, the mandate is to discover better ways to find the “stuff that matters” in the most expeditious and cost-effective manner.
These days, that's more easily done than it has been in even the recent past. Achieving that goal requires modern litigators to assess how to best view, search, categorize and produce electronic data. Fortunately, evolving technology is allowing litigation teams to evaluate a variety of tools to help form the best strategy for digging through mounds of digital documents accurately and efficiently.
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.
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.
How AI Has Affected PR
When we consider how the use of AI affects legal PR and communications, we have to look at it as an industrywide global phenomenon. A recent online conference provided an overview of the latest AI trends in public relations, and specifically, the impact of AI on communications. Here are some of the key points and takeaways from several of the speakers, who provided current best practices, tips, concerns and case studies.