Internal Investigations 2013
June 11, 2013
CLE - Live Seminar
USA
Description
Knowing how to conduct effective and efficient internal investigations is key to protecting your clients or company. Companies and their counsel need to be diligent and proactive in identifying risks and remedying potential issues. At this program, panels of experts from the private bar, in-house and the government use a real-world hypothetical fact pattern throughout the day to review the many considerations and issues that can and do arise from the beginning to the end of an investigation. The program is designed to review the fundamentals of conducting an effective and efficient investigation, as well as to touch on many practical issues arising today, including international issues, data privacy issues, labor and employment law issues, and more. Leave the program with a better understanding of how to handle investigations successfully for your clients or company.
- 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 vs. 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
- 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
- Updated, real-world hypothetical scenario to structure program
- Earn one hour of Ethics credit
- Receive a list of take-away practice points at the end of each panel
Organized by
Practising Law Institute
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York
United States of America
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