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During the course of a criminal case, victims often go unrepresented. In many instances, this lack of representation suits all parties:

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This article outlines the rules governing Civil Investigative Demands for oral testimony and how they differ from the rules governing depositions. It then discusses issues a company should consider when the government demands that its employees (or former employees) testify early in an investigation.

The so-called "crime-fraud exception" can strip away privilege protection from otherwise privileged communications that further clients' future criminal or fraudulent conduct.

Buchanan's White Collar Defense, Compliance & Investigations provided an update on new Department of Justice policies on corporate criminal enforcement and how recent changes...

In this op-ed published in The New York Times, Partner Preet Bharara discusses the legal double standard of closure. Only the famous and powerful receive a notice from the Department of Justice...

Jeffrey engages in a wide-ranging and deeply researched discussion around the evolution of the US presidential pardon...

Before the tenure of departing Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of wiretaps was generally relegated, as if by gentlemen's agreement, to narcotics and organized crime cases.

In a chapter in the ABA Criminal Justice Section's book The State of Criminal Justice: 2019, special pro bono counsel Ron Tabak again looks at recent developments relating to capital punishment.

This article reviews a selection of the top five Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement events of 2013.

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments...

The UK government has announced plans to create the first-ever International Anti-Corruption Co-ordination Centre.

Steptoe attorneys Iris Bennett and Carlos Grover, along with Amybeth García-Bokor of Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator Inc., co-authored chapter for the book...

Union corruption probes, unfortunately, continue to make headlines.

On June 23, 2014, all eyes in the securities bar were fixed on the Supreme Court’s opinion in Halliburton as practitioners and commentators evaluated the impact of that decision on the future of private securities class action litigation.

On October 31, 2017, the facilitation payments exception was officially removed from Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA).

On December 19, 2017, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court's dismissal of a class action lawsuit claiming that the NYSE and NASDAQ, among other exchanges, violated trading rules...

The Criminal Division's recent changes to its Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Disclosure Policy represent a significant change in approach, at least on paper.