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The Incredible Shrinking Privilege
September 01, 2003
The headlines reporting multi-million dollar corporate guilty pleas often miss a point widely understood among white-collar practitioners: The driving force behind the corporate plea is often not the merits of the government's charge, but the corporation's need to reach a global settlement resolving administrative and criminal sanctions that could put the company out of business.
Business Crimes Hotline
September 01, 2003
Recent cases of importance to your practice.
Sarbanes-Oxley: A Wake-up Call for Labor
September 01, 2003
Legislative winds are now stirring to strengthen financial accountability in labor organizations by amending their financial disclosure requirements and by arming the Department of Labor with greater enforcement tools. Labor leaders should learn from the failures of their business counterparts, and not wait for labor scandals to cause a legislative backlash like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
In The Courts
September 01, 2003
The latest rulings of importance to your practice.
Targeting Mutual Funds
September 01, 2003
Successful enforcement efforts against investment banks have emboldened state and federal authorities to target the next deep pocket in the securities industry: mutual funds, or more precisely, the funds' investment advisers. There are over 10,000 mutual funds in the United States today, with approximately $7 trillion in investments from approximately 83 million individual investors.
Hacker Attack: Data Loss Considered Covered Property Under First-Party Policy
August 26, 2003
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has recently weighed in on the applicability of standard-form, first-party property policies to the loss of computer data, finding such data loss resulting from a hacker attack by a former employee of the insured to be covered property damage. <i>NMS Services, Inc. v. The Hartford,</i> No. 01-2491, 2003 WL 1904413 (4th Cir., April 21, 2003)
Dust Off ' Or Whip Up ' Your Disaster Recovery Contracts and Security Procedures
August 23, 2003
Events such as Sept. 11 and the war with Iraq have brought issues such as disaster recovery and IT security measures to the forefront of the business world.
No Electronic Theft Act Is A Partial Success
August 22, 2003
In 1997, the No Electronic Theft Act radically changed the underpinnings of criminal copyright infringement. Before the act, criminal copyright infringement targeted infringers making profits. The act focuses instead on copyright owners' losses, treating criminal copyright infringement as a type of theft ' like shoplifting.
In the Courts
August 18, 2003
Analysis of cases of importance to your practice.
Business Crimes Hotline
August 18, 2003
Recent cases of importance to your practice.

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