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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 [...]

  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。 [...]