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<b>Practice Tip:</b> Processing Evidence: The Technical Challenges of Lotus Notes
Lotus Notes, the desktop client for the Lotus Domino collaboration product suite, is one of the more widely used messaging platforms in large corporations. The unique aspect of Lotus Notes is that it's an application environment, as well an e-mail exchange system. It provides a platform from which to build a wide range of business applications where messaging and collaboration are the necessary foundation.
Processing and producing evidence from a Lotus Notes database in response to an electronic discovery (ED) request is a far different process than a corresponding one in the Microsoft Exchange/Outlook environment. Because Lotus Notes is an application environment, the ability to identify what is an e-mail message and what's not can be very complicated, time consuming and technically challenging.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.