Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. In your inbox this week: Thought the past two years were intense? With President Donald Trump exiting the White House, defense lawyers are bracing for House Democrats to get even more aggressive investigating corporate clients. Plus: Goodwin Procter and Williams & Connolly defend former Wells Fargo executives in the latest shoe to drop over the bank's sales scandal.

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