5-Hour Program

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Overview

Why you should attend

In today's uncertain economic, legal and regulatory environment, companies, their executives, and their counsel need to be proactive in identifying risks and remedying potential issues. Knowing how to conduct efficient and effective internal investigations is key to protecting your clients or company.  Using a real-world hypothetical fact pattern throughout the day, expert panels review the many considerations and issues that can and do arise from the beginning to the end: issues to consider before and when commencing an investigation, conducting an investigation, dealing with the regulators, and concluding the investigation.  The program is designed to touch on many practical issues arising today: international, data privacy, labor and employment law issues, as well as fundamentals of the investigation.  Also new this year: hear from the plaintiffs’ bar as well as defense counsel, in-house counsel and regulators.  As they work their way through the hypothetical, the panels will provide you with practical tips, and tools and you will leave the program with a better understanding of how to handle investigations successfully for your clients or company.  

What you will learn

  • What to do when a potential whistleblower comes forward
  • How to conduct an internal investigation, in-house or outside
  • Considerations at the outset: nature and scope of the investigation
  • Document retention issues
  • Plaintiffs’ lawyers considerations: internal self-reporting to the company v. filing with the government
  • Issues in international investigations
  • Data privacy issues
  • The intersection of labor and employment law and internal investigations
  • When and how to work with outside experts
  • How to deal effectively with auditors
  • Whether and when to self-report. The government’s use, evaluation and weighing of internal investigations
  • Cooperation with the government
  • Concluding the investigation: when to prepare a report and how, corrective actions, cooperation with the government
  • Ethical issues: warnings to witnesses, representational issues, the rights of employees, avoiding obstruction, indemnification and advancement (Earn ethics CLE credit!)
Special Features
  • Updated, real-world hypothetical scenario to structure program
  • One full hour of ethics

Who should attend

This program is a must-attend event for anyone responsible for corporate investigations: inside and outside counsel, internal auditors, compliance officers, forensic accountants and other experts who handle internal investigations, and government attorneys - anyone who has a stake in this process.

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