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2023 Emoji Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

The 2023 count represented a 17% increase over the 2022 count. at 116 (Prosecutor: “How do you know th[e emojis] were supposed to indicate [‘we stormed the Capitol’] wasn’t a serious statement?” In 2023, I logged 225 such cases (this number will grow a bit due to lags with the electronic databases).

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Aliza Shatzman

Colin S. Levy

Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term because I aspired to be a homicide prosecutor in the D.C. prosecutors appeared before D.C. in the summer of 2021, intending to put my negative clerkship experience behind me and launch my career as a prosecutor. After law school, Aliza clerked in D.C. I decided to clerk in D.C.

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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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Denver Law Firm Coalition for Racial Equity Makes Strides, Looks to Future

Legal Tech Monitor

In 2022, the Coalition ramped up its efforts with a number of events, including a fireside chat with Jerry Blackwell , the prosecutor in the Derek Chauvin trial, and a series of panel presentations and in-person net working events as part of Practice Denver, an initiative that recruits diverse Chicago-area law students to the Mile High City.

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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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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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The FTX Saga: There’s No New Hope

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

District Judge Lewis Kaplan, the 31-year-old former billionaire’s lawyers said federal prosecutors in Manhattan had not yet turned over evidence collected from electronic devices belonging to Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, previously two of their client’s closest associates. [15] 14] In a letter to U.S. 13] See id. [14]