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We start a new series on the “best-of-breed” boutique law firms with Kalbian Hagerty LLP: experts on the Persian Gulf, the FCPA and more

   Throughout our coverage of the Georgetown University Law Center’s conference on “Law firm evolution” (click here), the hot topic of conversation was the recent development of entrepreneurial

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FCPA Enforcement in 2010: Prepare for Blastoff

When Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer was recently asked to comment on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 2009, he minced no words: “One can say without exaggeration that this

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DOJ Unit That Prosecutes FCPA to Bulk Up “Substantially”

  As reported today in Corporate Counsel magazine, anti-corruption enforcement is bulking up (click here for article).    Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the DOJ fraud section’s criminal division,

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Commentary: FCPA Internal Investigations — Are They Worth It?

  As we have commented on in numerous posts (click here), enforcement activity under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act continues to increase.  We have reported on how federal prosecutors are utilizing

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FCPA Report Shows Companies Shelling Out to Avoid Prosecution

Since so many Posse List members (contract attorneys, law firms, computer forensics specialists, etc.) are working on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters we thought the most recent bi-annual

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ACC Boston: notes on some of the substantive presentations (Part 1)

As we have said in several of our posts about last week’s ACC meeting, there was a lot to cover.  There was a cornucopia of information:  excellent panels on intellectual property, doing business

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“Corruption … is good … and the FCPA … is good … for contract attorneys” – Gordon Gekko

  Ok, maybe Gordon Gekko did not say that but he could have.  Anyway, we used it because the Wall Street sequel hits the streets soon (click here) and several Posse List members working on an entertainment

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Trends in the contract attorney market – Part 1, An Overview

We spent the last 3 weeks in Chicago, D.C., LA and NYC.   We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments

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Foreign language document reviews, and projects outside the U.S. — wrap-up of the ILSLC

ILSLC (Part 2:  wrap-up) We want to finish our review of last week’s International Legal Support Leaders Conference (ILSLC) with a focus on U.S. foreign language document reviews and document

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Webinars on e-discovery, a seminar on Adobe … and articles on stuff

Upcoming webinars, and a seminar for those of you in D.C.: WEBINAR: Socha-Gelbmann Update: LegalTech New York, EDRM & e-Discovery Trends Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST (Duration:

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