10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 16, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 15, 2025, The Privilege Protected Edition
Key Discovery Points: Navigating Clawbacks When In-House Counsel Are Included
False Claims Act Insights - Is DOJ Allowed to Share Privileged Documents with Whistleblowers in FCA Disputes?
[Podcast] Defining Our Vision and Values
DE Under 3: OFCCP Walks Back Its Earlier “Pay Equity” Directive
JONES DAY TALKS®: International Litigation: Confidentiality and Legal Privilege under French Law
Podcast - Finding the Balance
Writing a book as a Big Law partner - Legally Contented Ep. 2 - Christopher Ruhland
Podcast - A Tortured Journey with the Lying Witness
Internal Investigations in the Asia-Pacific Region
Cyberside Chats: Preserving Legal Privilege After a Cybersecurity Incident
CyberSide Chats: Yes, you needed a cyber attorney a long time ago (with Erik Weinick)
Client Confidentiality in the Age of Coronavirus [More with McGlinchey Ep. 2]
Jones Day Presents: Strategies for Dealing with the IRS: The IRS Examination
Day 15 of One Month to Better Investigations and Reporting-the Parameters of Privileges
Day 2 of One Month to Better Investigations and Reporting-Selection of Investigative Counsel
Your Cyber Minute: Attorney-client privilege in the midst of a cybersecurity breach
Insurance Companies and the Attorney-Client Privilege in Arizona
Attorney Client Privilege
When a client seeks legal advice from a lawyer, the confidential communications between them, which are made for the sole or dominant purpose of seeking and receiving legal advice, are protected by legal professional...more
In a landmark ruling handed down on 24 July 2025 (Jardine Strategic Limited (Appellant) v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and 80 others (Respondents) No 2 (Bermuda) [2025] UKPC 34), the Judicial Committee of the Privy...more
AI note-taking is today’s topic du jour. The first thing to know about this topic is that you need to experience it for yourself to see why it’s so attractive. (I’ll run a blog soon summarizing how AI note-taking works in...more
Yesterday in a landmark decision, Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others, the Privy Council, on appeal from Bermuda’s Court of Appeal, has changed the law....more
In England and the United States, legal professional privilege or attorney-client privilege is considered fundamental to the administration of justice, allowing clients to make confidential, full, and frank disclosure to...more
Introduction - Non-profit boards are the backbone of countless community institutions – from homeowners associations and religious congregations to private schools and arts organizations. Yet, when these boards face...more
On Feb. 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Two Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated Sept. 13, 2023 affirmed the Southern District of New York’s order compelling a partner at a law firm and the firm to...more
On February 7, 2025, the Second Circuit ruled that the crime-fraud exception would prevent the former CEO of a public company from invoking attorney-client privilege to prevent an outside lawyer and his law firm from...more
A phone call comes in from a panicked client, the owner of a small, successful business. Your client was reviewing some financial records – a task usually handled by a long–time and trusted employee – and the client noticed a...more
Businesses who employ in-house attorneys frequently assume that copying their lawyer on internal communications shields the communications from discovery because of the attorney-client privilege. In 1981, the U.S. Supreme...more
The California General Corporation Law requires that a California corporation have a secretary. Cal. Corp. Code § 312(a)(2). The CGCL, however, says nothing about a chief legal officer. Indeed, many corporations do not...more
The exigent circumstances that are often present at the outset of a corporate investigation may not lend themselves to calm contemplation, yet it is especially important that attorneys give thoughtful consideration to the...more
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 40th International Conference on the FCPA returns for another exciting year with curated programming that shines a global spotlight on anti-corruption compliance challenges,...more
In Hyde Park Venture Partners Fund III, L.P. v. FairXchange, LLC, 2023 WL 2417273 (Del. Ch. Mar. 9, 2023), Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster ruled that two investment funds were within the "circle of confidentiality" that...more
When a company discovers that a crime may have been committed by individuals within the company, or is alerted by the government of that possibility, the company will often hire an outside law firm to conduct an internal...more
On July 25, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced insider trading charges against ten individual defendants across four separate cases (Bhardwaj, Goel, Markin, and Buyer), filed in the...more
In a ruling this week, Vice Chancellor Lori Will addressed whether one-half of an evenly divided board could gain access privileged communications between the corporation and its long-time outside counsel. In re Aerojet...more
Those with ownership stakes in privately held businesses, partnerships, or family offices need to closely collaborate with and trust others. When disagreements and disputes over rights and responsibilities arise, individual...more
This issue covers important, developing areas of Delaware corporation law and deal litigation, including the evolving law on attorney-client privilege for emails on noncompany servers, recent Chancery Court Caremark decisions...more
With the Delta variant surge, many companies have delayed plans for a return to in-person board and committee meetings. The go-to alternative, in many cases, will be a return to video conferences, which worked well in the...more
What questions do prospective SPAC directors need to ask? What are the 10 most common misconceptions regarding attorney-client privilege? The Informed Board aims to provide insights into the key issues directors face...more
Pandemic-Related Uncertainty Means Business Decisions Will Be Highly Scrutinized - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop, guiding a business through this time of immense crisis means making decisions that gravely...more
Every court agrees that when a lawyer represents a corporation, the entity owns the privilege as the "client." But that analysis can be difficult in closely held corporations. In Morristown Heart Consultants, PLLC v....more
Executive Compensation Recoupment - The most recent development in the prominent University of Louisville Foundation controversy is the release of an independent analysis suggesting that its senior executive leadership was...more
On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was issuing a new enforcement policy covering its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The...more