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• The Right to Associate in the Defense

  The "right to associate" permits the insurer to work with the insured to investigate, defend, or settle a claim. Such partnerships protect the insurer and can prove beneficial to the insured's underlying case and ultimate exposure.

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• 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.

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• The Cost of Making Partner

  Making partner isn't cheap, and the cost is more than just the years of hard work and stress that associates put in as they reach for the brass ring.

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• Ransomware – COVID-19 & Upgrading Your Defenses

  It's pretty shameful that in the current crisis we're seeing ransomware on the rise. It's even more shameful that organizations involved in fighting the virus seem to be especially at risk.

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• Cutting Off the Stream: How United States v. Silver Affects "Stream of Benefits" or "Retainer" Bribery

  Although the court stressed that, by vacating certain of former NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's counts of conviction, it was clarifying and not altering the "as opportunities arise" theory, it nevertheless emphasized that this theory requires particularity with respect to the "question or matter" that is the subject of the bribe payor and recipient's corrupt agreement.

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