For years, companies have dreaded DOJ’s potential appointment of a corporate monitorship as part of a criminal resolution.  Companies have often complained about the experience, citing burdensome and sometimes unnecessary changes being required as part of a corporate monitorship.  On the other hand, some companies who have completed a monitorship will acknowledge that the corporate monitor helped the company establish effective ethics and compliance program...

Winners Never Quite and Quitters Never Win – Vince Lombardi If you fight you might lose; if you don’t, you have already lost – Bertolt Brecht Federal prosecutors know that their job – to represent the United States – is the highlight of their legal career. Speaking from experience, federal prosecutors are a privileged lot – they can announce in court they represent the United...

This was a strange year.  Not just because of the continuing pandemic and economic disruption. The Biden Administration took over after an unusual and delayed transition. The apparatus of government was slow to transition. Compounding this disruption, the government had to maintain a singular focus on the pandemic. As a result, the wheels of government moved in strange ways, often with delays.  The Biden Administration’s...