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This deck on litigation discovery is from a joint presentation I gave to the America Bar Association with Judge Patrick Hanna, and Diane Quick. The first question about discovery is WHERE? [...]

The best way to manage recalls and other product safety and compliance crises is to avoid them. Of course, there will always be some things that remain outside of your control. But the good news [...]

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 [...]

A General Counsel’s Cautionary Tale In 10 years our revenue has grown from $50 million to $5 billion. Not surprisingly, the volume, variety, and complexity of the legal issues we face have [...]

Welcome to our three parts approach to  product safety and regulatory compliance. (1) Establish a system of people processes and technology to address product safety and regulatory compliance.  [...]

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 [...]

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・電信が広がる。 １８７７年・電話の発明。 １９０２年・太平洋に電信線が渡り、地球を一周。 １９３５年・テレックスが広く使われる。 １９８０年・ページャーが広く使われる。 １９８５年・ブラックベリーの登場。 [...]

  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 [...]

仕事上でも個人的にでも、重要度が高いか低いかにかかわらず、また、下手か上手かにかかわらず、また、意識的かそうでないかにかかわらず、私たちは常に交渉を行っています。しかし、このように頻繁に行われているにもかかわらず、良い交渉とは自然なものではなく、直感的なものでもありません。標準的な教育カリキュラムにも含まれていません。また、親が子供に与えるネゴシエーションのお手本もよくありません。 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

まず、企業側弁護人が当該事件の背景も含め、どのような点が追及されるのか、どのような書類について質問されるのかといったことを、企業クライアントに具体的に解説する。 [...]

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 [...]

企業の代理証言ということで、幹部や管理職を選任すべきと思われがちであるが、決してそのようなことはない。会社幹部が必ずしも事情に精通し、的確に供述できるとは限らないからである。また幹部を供述者とした場合、不要に貴重な時間を費やすだけでなく、マスコミなどの注目を必要以上に浴びてしまう恐れさえある。 [...]

  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 [...]

1979年から1989年8月までの１０年間、アメリカの移民局は失効日（expiration [...]

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 [...]

  Q。「今年は１２月２８日から日本へ行ってみたい。その前にカード更新手続きした方が良いでしょうか。」 [...]

  This was the first international anti-corruption convention.

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。 １９９０年ごろ・携帯電話が広く普及し始める。 [...]

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 [...]

ロスト・イン・トランスレーション」をご存知であろうか　（ビル・マーレイ主演、ソフィア・コッポラ監督）。来日した映画スター（マーレイ）がサントリーウイスキーの宣伝を撮影するシーンである。通訳を介して日本人監督とやり取りする場面は面白い。 [...]

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

証人の供述がビデオ録画されると事前通知を受けた際には、事前に下記の通り手配することをお勧めする。 個別モニターを手配し、定期的に映像を確認。 必要であれば補助的照明を要求する。下向きの明かりの場合、目が陰になるケースが多い。 音質を守る為、撮影業者にヘッドホンの使用を要求。 証言者の背景は１メートルくらい離れた所に無地で無難な布を使う。 目や顔が陰になっていないことを確認。 [...]

  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 [...]

以上で企業供述の大筋は分かっていただけたと思う。言うまでもなく、個々のケースにより臨機応変に対応することが必要であるが、少なくとも上記の点を押えておけば、今後の企業供述にあたり、心構えができるのではないだろうか。

Carlton Fields In-House Counsel Forum (Strategically Aligned Legal Decisions: Using Data to Drive Decisions): Plenary Speaker  

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 [...]

This is another great publication from the Federal Judicial Center. What I value about their publications is that they are well thought out, well written, pragmatic and concise. Just the kind of [...]

質問を良く聞く。自分の知識で返事ができる否か。（供述に備えて習得した知識も含め）聞かれていることについて覚えているか否か。返事をする前に間を置き、弁護人に異議を唱える時間を与える。正直に答える。答え終わったらそれ以上しゃべらない。 [...]