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‘Heed This Message’: Organizations That Fail to Contemplate Off-Channel Communications ‘Do So at Their Own Peril’

Discovery Advocate

In March, the DOJ Criminal Division revised its “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (ECCP) guidelines , which prosecutors use to make corporate charging decisions, to incorporate those principles from the September 2022 Monaco Memo.

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DOJ Issues Trio of Updates that Further Heighten Compliance Expectations, Particularly Involving Off-System Communications and Compensation Systems

Debevoise Data Blog

Consistent with corporate enforcement memos released in October 2021 and September 2022, these changes reflect DOJ’s continued prioritization of incentivizing companies to help deter criminal conduct in the first place. As noted in our 2022 Year in Review , several Wall Street banks and brokerages recently agreed to pay a combined $1.8

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SEC and CFTC Continue Crackdown on Financial Firms Over Off-Channel Communications

Discovery Advocate

Employers should ensure that they maintain and consistently update policies and compliance procedures regarding record retention and the use of personal devices as regulators and prosecutors continue to focus on off-channel communications.

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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Unpacking State Legislative Vetoes; How to Break Up Amazon; Specialist Directors; Mandatory Equity Issuances as a First-Best Solution to Punishing Corporate Misconduct

Wisblawg

In other states, direct litigation over the mechanism seems not to have occurred. We hand-collect and hand-code data from the proxy statements of S&P 500 (large cap) and S&P 600 (small cap) companies over the 2016–2022 period. Some of these rulings have been superseded by constitutional amendment or statutory adjustment.

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It Can Happen to Anyone

Legal Talk Network

During my visit to the Innocence Network’s Annual Conference , I talked with exonerees, defense attorneys, prosecutors, forensic scientists, fellow podcasters, volunteers, and of course famous anti-death penalty nuns from the Catholic Church. XONR8 pic.twitter.com/C91QdLO6l0 — Justin Brooks (@JustinoBrooks) April 9, 2022.

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A New Era of FTC Privacy and Cybersecurity Oversight: Top Ten Things Companies Should Know When Assessing FTC Compliance and Exposure

Debevoise Data Blog

More recently, on January 4, 2022, the FTC issued an advisory informing companies of their obligation to remediate the Log4j security vulnerability and more generally ensure that security vulnerabilities are appropriately remediated. [13] Litigation is costly, time- and resource-intensive, and can play out over many years before resolution.

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Lawmatics and The Innocence Center Partner Up to Improve Access to Justice

Lawmatics

So we do work with law enforcement occasionally, and then I have prosecutors on here because oftentimes you see conviction integrity units or conviction review units that pop up in district attorney offices. Unfortunately, prosecutors are relying on us to solve the crime, which really it should just be us proving our person didn't do it.