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May 30, 2018 | Law.com

White-collar cases are approaching a new 20-year-low. What's driving the trend? Plus: The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to post online, for the first time, guidance memos about the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the lobbying law in focus now as part of the prosecution of Paul Manafort.

By C. Ryan Barber

3 minute read

May 25, 2018 | National Law Journal

“I think this could make a big difference in how firms advise clients on FARA compliance because, up until now, we've all had to do a great deal of reading the tea leaves rather than having actual legal precedents to look at,” Covington & Burling's Robert Kelner said.

By C. Ryan Barber

5 minute read

May 23, 2018 | National Law Journal

It didn't take long for a U.S. Supreme Court decision this term on privacy rights to emerge in perhaps an unlikely spot: the special counsel's prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

May 23, 2018 | Law.com

Catching up with former Justice Department lawyer Hui Chen, who spoke recently at Compliance Week. Plus: Some of the early commentary about the Dodd-Frank rollback moves. And: We've got a roundup of some of the latest in-house promotions.

By C. Ryan Barber

3 minute read

May 22, 2018 | National Law Journal

Hiltrud Werner, Volkswagen's head of integrity and legal affairs, says the company is "already making extremely good progress” at developing a speak-up culture. “But we are not yet where we want to be,” she adds.

By C. Ryan Barber |

4 minute read

May 21, 2018 | National Law Journal

The deputy attorney general's planned remarks to a compliance audience in Washington did not reference Trump's demand for an investigation of the FBI. “We stress the need to act ethically and to do justice. We expect our prosecutors, our law enforcement agents and other personnel to be thinking about their ethical obligations with every decision that we make,” Rosenstein said at the event, hosted by Compliance Week.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read

May 17, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

The episode underscored the heated nature of the special counsel's case against Concord Management and Consulting, which was charged along with 13 Russian individuals and two separate entities with subverting the 2016 election.

By C. Ryan Barber

4 minute read

May 17, 2018 | National Law Journal

Andrew Smith joins the FTC from Covington & Burling. FTC chair Joe Simons said Wednesday he was “disappointed that two of my new colleagues have chosen to turn Mr. Smith's appointment into a source of unnecessary controversy.”

By C. Ryan Barber |

6 minute read

May 16, 2018 | National Law Journal

The episode underscored the heated nature of the special counsel's case against Concord Management and Consulting, which was charged along with 13 Russian individuals and two separate entities with subverting the 2016 election.

By C. Ryan Barber |

4 minute read

May 15, 2018 | National Law Journal

"The case did not arise in a vacuum, and the special counsel did not create his own job description," U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in a ruling that upheld the criminal charges against Paul Manafort, the former Donald Trump campaign chairman.

By C. Ryan Barber |

5 minute read