Discovery on Discovery
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 […]
Reduce Compliance Cost
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 […]
FCPA Prosecutions 1978-2022
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 [...]
Data Driven Litigation Decisions
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 […]
Crisis Management & Compliance
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 Shestakov
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 [...]
Attorney-Client Communications: Update 2017
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。 [...]
Bridge Across Troubled Waters
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 […]
Jounce is Startup-Centric Legal
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 […]
FCPA Enforcers at Conferences
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 [...]
2016 Corruption Heat Map
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 […]
Self Drive Regulation
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 [...]
8 Steps to Improve Compliance
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 […]
Criminal e-Discovery Pocket Guide
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 [...]
Root Cause Analysis Master Class
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. […]
Improve Value | Reduce Compliance Risk
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 [...]
Value Propositions Impact Compliance
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 [...]
交渉を有利に進めるための4つのステップ
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。 [...]
2014 Corruption Heat Map
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 […]
4-Steps to Better Negotiation
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 [...]
Institutional Inertia
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 […]
Privilege: A Pocket Guide
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 [...]
Compliance Program Development Guidelines
An effective anti-competitive behavior compliance program should expand and improve competition law compliance through business policies, procedures, controls and training designed to satisfy [...]
「企業供述」供述者の事前準備
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。 [...]
Common Sense Record Compliance
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 [...]
企業供述(供述者の選択や事前準備)
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。 [...]
Anti-Corruption Program Maintenance
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 [...]
FCPA Resource Guide
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 [...]
無期限グリーン・カードの撤廃
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 [...]
Business Ethics Guide
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 [...]
Inter-American Anti-Corruption
This was the first international anti-corruption convention.
弁護士のコミュニケーション手段
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。 [...]