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Where Have All the Technophobes Gone?
About five years ago, I attended what was one of the earlier LegalTech New York conferences. I reported that two words echoed persistently through the corridors at Legal Tech ' technophobe and extranet.
Legal Tech is the excellent and information-rich three-day conference that brings lawyers and technology together. It was, then, as some lawyers and a lot of techies all obsessed with moving the legal profession into the 21st century. I said, then, that a technophobe is an individual who is so frightened of new technology that he or she recoils from it. Sometimes technophobes wear defensive robes by boasting about their ignorance, as if to imply that there's a virtue in ignorance or that technology is demeaning to the intellectually superior technophobe. It's usually a kind of false humility, designed to soften a feeling of inadequacy (or just plain laziness, whichever comes first).
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.