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Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel . To implement a risk-based compliance program, companies have to identify activities that pose greater risk and allocate resources to... more
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Ryan McConnell, Sonia Rye
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel . David Simon's hit TV series The Wire taught us various techniques prosecutors can use to catch crooks from pen registers... more
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Charlotte Simon, Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel . Mad Men's latest season premieres in April, providing an opportunity to welcome back traditions that time has forgotten-three-martin... more
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Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel . As companies are revising their compliance programs to try to ensure a risk-based approach to compliance, the NCAA tournament presen... more
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Ryan McConnell
Morgan Lewis partner Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel. Cyber crime illustrates the two defining business trends of the modern day-globali... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
George Terwilliger III, Benjamin Klein
Judge in Siemens case seeks "limiting principle" for the exercise of personal jurisdiction over foreign defendants and concludes that mere support for a bribery scheme by a foreign defendant is insufficient to establish minimum contacts.
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Charlotte Simon, Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel . The U.S. government says in its 2012 guidance for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that a facilitation payment is a payment made to... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
George Terwilliger III, Benjamin Klein, Daniel Levin
Decision in Magyar Telekom case maintains that engaging in unlawful conduct abroad that is "directed toward the United States, even if not principally directed there," may trigger personal jurisdiction.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
George Terwilliger III, Matthew Miner, Robert Bittman, Dallas Kaplan, Daniel Levin, Eric Sitarchuk
Amendments aim to improve enforcement of Canadian foreign corruption law by expanding jurisdiction, creating a books and records offense, eliminating the facilitation payments exception, redefining "business" and enforcement authority, and increasing the maximum imprisonment penalty.
Outside Publication | Article
Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel. The problem with using FCPA enforcement statistics to evaluate compliance risk assessments is that just because violations occur in one... more
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Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel. One of the challenges compliance officers will face this year is communication-providing the board of directors with the information th... more
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Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel . A 'risk-based' approach depends on using empirical data to address compliance risk. How to use this data to discern trends and risks... more
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Ryan McConnell
Ryan McConnell contributes a regular column on risk and compliance to Corporate Counsel . Most compliance programs are organized around some basic building blocks or key elements that tie back into accepted compliance fram... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | White Collar LawFlash
Erica Smith-Klocek, Chelsea Stine, Brian Shaffer
Second Circuit holds that the government will be required to prove more than simple off-label promotion for misbranding prosecutions under the FDCA.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
George Terwilliger III, Daniel Levin, Marc Shanker, Eric Kraeutler
Assistant Attorney General Breuer highlights transparency, global trends, and the benefits of robust compliance programs at the American Conference Institute's 28th National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Outside Publication | Article
George Terwilliger III
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
George Terwilliger III, Dallas Kaplan, Benjamin Klein, Eric Kraeutler, Eric Sitarchuk
Interagency guide provides a blend of statutory interpretation, case analysis, and practice recommendations for corporations and their advisors but lacks definitive answers to many FCPA questions.
LawFlash/Client Alert | White Collar LawFlash
Meredith Auten, Eric Sitarchuk
U.S. district court decision may now allow defendants in False Claims Act cases to obtain sanctions where potentially relevant documents are lost or destroyed due to the government's failure to issue a timely litigation hold.
Presentation | Webinar
Kathleen McDermott, Nathan Andrisani, Lisa Dykstra, Meredith Auten, Eric Sitarchuk, Joanna Hendon
Morgan Lewis's Nate Andrisani, Meredith Auten, Joanna Hendon, Lisa Dykstra, Katie McDermott, and Eric Sitarchuk presented this webinar discussing the most significant False Claims Act cases of 2011. more
Presentation | Webinar
Margaret Gatti, Leslie Caldwell, Alison Tanchyk, Eric Kraeutler
Morgan Lewis's Leslie Caldwell, Margaret Gatti, Eric Kraeutler, and Alison Tanchyk presented this webinar discussing the most significant FCPA-related trends and cases of 2011, as well as predictions for 2012. more
Outside Publication | Book
Kelly Moore, Eric Sitarchuk
The current focus on compliance, disclosure, enforcement, and penalties continues to increase. As new and sweeping financial reform and other laws are passed and new regulations are promulgated, enforcement activity will continu... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
Benjamin Klein, Tiffany Johnson
At the 26th annual National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), held November 8 and 9, 2011, officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stressed that both ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
Kelly Moore, Kimberly Hicks
In a blow to the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ's) efforts to increase enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) against individuals, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
In the latest sign that the Department of Labor (DOL) is taking a harder line against employers defending whistleblower claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the DOL's Administrative Review Board (ARB) recently ruled in S... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LawFlash
Kelly Moore, Alison Tanchyk, Eric Kraeutler
On May 25, 2011, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved final rules to implement the SEC whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). Because t... more