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http://digarc.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/usctheses-m1125/etd-Barron-20080415
Some freelance I did long before I started at the DJ finally went into California Lawyer magazine. Whee.
Now is not a good time to run afoul of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Since 2006 the SEC and the Department of Justice have more than doubled their prosecutions for foreign bribery and other violations, according to a report from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. And the current crop of cases is just the “tip of the iceberg,” as Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the DOJ fraud section, told the Washington, D.C., Bar Association last year.
That means now is a good time for California law firms who counsel companies on avoiding and getting out of such entanglements.
Although the FCPA is more than 30 years old, enforcement is just now heating up. That’s because of the 2002 passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its internal-controls review requirement, which makes it easier for a company to determine whether it complies with the FCPA regulations. Now, many companies that find violations are voluntarily disclosing them to the SEC and the DOJ.
