In-house counsel can and should do more to protect their companies from criminal liability, both as gatekeepers and as “agents for change,” Assistant U.S. Attorney General Lanny Breuer said recently.
Speaking before the annual meeting of the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association in McClean, Va., Breuer said the Justice Department’s criminal division will not hesitate to charge corporate executives or their lawyers “if we find credible evidence of criminal conduct.”
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