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Olek has 20+ years CTO experience developing enterprise software products with 1+ million users. Olek developed InsurTech claims automation platform “Livegenic” which supports 30 of the largest [...]

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From the SEC Website, annual prosecutions from 2010 through the present (2017).. Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) continues to be a high priority area for the SEC. In 2010, [...]

時代の流れとともに年々改良される交信手段。 言うまでもないが、どの時代においても弁護人・依頼人間のコミュニケーションには、最新の交信手段が用いられてきた。 １８４０年ごろ・電信が広がる。 １８７７年ごろ・電話の発明。 １９０２年ごろ・太平洋に電信線が渡り、地球を一周。 １９３５年ごろ・テレックスが広く使われる。 １９８０年ごろ・ページャーが広く使われる。 [...]

  We recently decided to use the back of our new business cards to pay homage to iconic Park Street Bridge connecting Alameda and Oakland. We’re doing this for a few reasons. The [...]

Startups have different risk profiles, need different legal services, and operate in their own time zone. Startups need to push MVP (minimum viable product) out the door fast. Startups need to [...]

The FCPA Professor posted on LinkedIn and on his blog today about the optics of FCPA enforcement officials being offered speaking slots at pricey conferences attended by businesses potentially [...]

Is it necessarily true that power [always] corrupts and absolute power [always] corrupts absolutely? There may be some exceptions, but it happens often enough so that any business that wants to [...]

I spent this afternoon watching a Senate hearing on self-drive. Ten senators* and five witnesses** addressing technical and regulatory questions arising from an innovation with a surprisingly [...]

Previous posts addressed the importance of aligning value proposition and employee incentives. In a nutshell, if you tell employees to do X, but pay them to do Y, don’t be too surprised [...]

Another excellent publication from the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). Of interest potentially to FCPA defendants who find themselves in court. As has always been my experience with the FJC Pocket [...]

This recently came to my attention and I’m sharing it because I know that some of you appreciate a good investigation and root cause analysis as much as I do. On April 30, 2015, a fire [...]

  Image from “Moshidora” (2009), by Natsumi Iwasaki (English title “What if a high school baseball manager read Drucker’s Management”). Moshidora follows protagonist Minami Kawashima as she [...]

  I don’t know about you, but after this crazy week of ignition issues, peanut butter perp walk, and emissions omissions, I’m about up to here with schadenfreude. It is time to [...]

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Is it necessarily true that power [always] corrupts and absolute power [always] corrupts absolutely? There may be some exceptions, but it happens often enough so that any business that wants to [...]

Whether professionally or personally; whether of great or little importance; whether done poorly or well; and whether consciously or otherwise; we all negotiate all the time. Despite its [...]

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Organizations can develop inertia for many reasons. In the same way, projects within an organization tend to develop increasing inertia as they move closer to completion. In the case of an [...]

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Yet another Federal Judicial Center Pocket Guide for Judges, this time about handling privileged, classified or otherwise secret government information in litigation. This guide addresses both [...]

An effective anti-competitive behavior compliance program should expand and improve competition law compliance through business policies, procedures, controls and training designed to satisfy [...]

Litigation and regulatory investigations aren’t “black swan” events. They’re a cost of doing business. How much it costs the business is impacted by how well a business [...]

  It’s no secret, designing, implementing and training a large scale global compliance program is a massive undertaking. It requires commitment, focus, and resources. When the CEO and [...]

This highly useful 150-page resource guide published in late 2012 is the fruit of cooperation between the Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission, with contributions from the [...]

The U.S. Government generates a substantial volume of high-quality work product. Your tax dollars are particularly hard at work in this resource from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which weighs in [...]

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  This was the first international anti-corruption convention.

The Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) consists of most of Western Europe, a few Eastern European countries, North America, Japan, Korea, and a few other states. It [...]

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This was the first international convention to combat bribery of public officials.

  Despite being a well-known issue, tolerance stack up remains a costly failure mode for many manufacturers. Alpha supplies gears made to a ± tolerance. Beta supplies a mating component for [...]

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Over the last 10-15 years, there has been a great deal to absorb regarding e-Discovery. In particular, Judge Scheindlin was a trailblazer with the Zubalake (basically, traditional discovery rules [...]