Strategies for Protecting Privileges,
Confidentiality and Employee Rights
CD of Teleconference with Q&A
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Conducted on Thursday, July 24, 2008
Now available on CD
Sponsored by the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications
After recent corporate scandals and with the memory of Enron still strong, companies must maintain procedures to ensure strict compliance with state and federal laws. To reinforce that effort, attorneys that advise companies must master the intricacies of conducting internal investigations.
Internal investigations can threaten vulnerable corporate interests and employees' rights, raise difficult attorney–client privilege and work product issues, and throw some organizations into corporate paralysis.
To meet the compliance demands, and avoid the pitfalls, sound business practice requires carefully planned internal audits and investigations to reassure shareholders — and to provide a first line of defense if the government comes knocking.
Listen as our authoritative panel of attorneys provides effective strategies for preparing for and implementing internal investigations to protect the full spectrum of corporate interests.
The panel included:
Stuart M. Altman, Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C. He focuses on white-collar investigations and defense, including representing clients in securities enforcement proceedings and conducting internal investigations, corporate governance, and litigation.
Michael J. Missal, Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, Washington, D.C. He focuses on internal investigations, securities enforcement matters and broker–dealer regulation. He represents companies and officers and directors in regulatory and corporate governance matters.
The panel reviewed these and other key questions:
- Who should conduct investigations — for both routine audit purposes and for responding to government inquiries — for internal complaints?
- What special considerations arise in interviewing employees, whistleblowers and corporate executives?
- What precautions should you take into account when documenting an investigation?
- What privileges are implicated in investigations and how can companies avoid compromising any legal protections?
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