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Fine-Tune Your Goals This February
January is a month when many individuals make resolutions intended to ensure their personal and professional success. In January, you may promise yourself that this year you will be more conscientious about growing your practice and developing your leadership skills. You may improve your billing practices and strive to bill as you go; and resolve not to leave the office until your day's work has been recorded. To fit in more time during your billable day to focus on non-billable activities, such as writing articles or client lunches, you may vow to work longer hours during the week. You may challenge yourself to be the first lawyer in the office in the morning and the lawyer that turns off the lights at the end of the day.
Then comes February, and your shiny hopes and declarations may lose some of their luster. They may seem overly ambitious, unrealistic or unattainable. You may ask yourself, “What was I thinking? How did I ever think I could achieve so much?”
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.