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New GTLDs Law Strategy for Business
ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is a non-profit organization that runs the main root zone of the Internet. They have spent almost a decade planning and studying how to expand the Internet. This plan, otherwise known as the New gTLD (Global Top Level Domain) Program will expand the 22 existing top level domains (TLDs) (.com, .net, and .info) to well over a thousand TLDs within the next year. This expansion comes as part of what ICANN perceives as its mandate to create a truly international Internet space that is a reflection of the global Internet community. The new TLDs will include internationalized domain names that, for the first time, will be in non-Roman characters, meaning there will be TLDs in Chinese, Japanese and Arabic.
Beginning in January 2012, ICANN started accepting applications for new TLDs from applicants interested in owning and running a TLD. (For background and history of the TLD expansion, see, “From Dot-Com to Dot-Whatever,” from the July 2011 issue of Internet Law & Strategy.) Although ICANN estimated that it would receive about 500 applications from interested parties, when it opened the application period it received over 1,900.
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.
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.