5-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

At this unique program, an expert faculty will use an accounting fraud scenario with a graphic novel presentation to review the fundamentals of conducting an effective and efficient investigation, as well as touch on the many more nuanced and practical issues arising today. Leave the program with a better understanding of how to handle investigations successfully for your clients or company. Click on the image to the right for a brief preview.

What You Will Learn

  • Considerations at the outset: nature and scope of the investigation
  • Document retention and data privacy issues
  • Plaintiffs’ lawyers considerations: internal self-reporting to the company vs. filing with the government
  • Issues in international investigations
  • The intersection of labor and employment law and internal investigations
  • When and how to work with outside experts
  • When you should disclose and when you should not
  • The government’s use, evaluation and weighing of internal investigations
  • 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

Special Features

  • Real-world accounting fraud hypothetical with a graphic novel presentation to structure program
  • One full hour of Ethics CLE credit

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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