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Business Executive Arrested and Charged with Bribing Venezuelan Officials
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Protecting Privilege Before and After a Cyber Breach
Critical to any counsel working to prevent a cyber attack or respond to a successful cyber intrusion is an understanding of why and how to properly utilize both attorney-client and work-product privilege.
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Losing the Ability to Conduct Business, Period
<i><b>The Potential Impact of Multilateral Development Bank Sanctions</i></b><p>What could be worse than a several-hundred-million dollar Foreign Corrupt Practices Act fine hitting your company? How about not being allowed to even compete for many of your most important contracts for a period of several years.
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Pitching Your Cybersecurity Case to Law Enforcement Agencies
This article focuses on the unique issues that arise in a specific but increasingly common scenario: when your client is the victim of a cybercrime.
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What the C-Suite Needs to Know About FCPA Prosecutions
In 2017, the Justice Department charged 20 people with FCPA violations — the second-highest single-year total since the law's passage in 1977, according to a new study by Arent Fox.
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Business Crimes Hotline
Caris Healthcare Settles False Claim Act Lawsuit for Hospice Fraud
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Balancing Fourth Amendment Expectations in the Electronic Era
As rapid technological changes in the 21st century continue to expand the types and volume of private electronic information, the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections are evolving. The critical question in Fourth Amendment cases is whether a person has a “reasonable expectation of privacy in the information or event.”
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The DOJ's Latest Opioid Crime-Fighting Tool: The Civil False Claims Act
<b><i>The U.S. Department of Justice Is Now Using The False Claims Act — Traditionally a Civil Enforcement Tool — to Combat the United States' Sweeping Opioid Epidemic</b></i><p>The use of the FCA is part of a larger DOJ strategy to develop multi-faceted solutions for this public health emergency.
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The Seizure of Attorney-Client Communications: Fighting Back
The government's seizure of attorney-client communications, a headline event when it involves the President's lawyer Michael Cohen, actually is a recurrent problem in white collar criminal investigations due to the convergence of several trends.
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