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Foreword, Corporate Governance Five Years After Sarbanes-Oxley: Is There Real Change, Faith Stevelman
Foreword, Corporate Governance Five Years After Sarbanes-Oxley: Is There Real Change, Faith Stevelman
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The Impact Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act On Non-Shareholder Constituents: A Silver Lining, But Will It Endure?, Lisa M. Fairfax
The Impact Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act On Non-Shareholder Constituents: A Silver Lining, But Will It Endure?, Lisa M. Fairfax
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Corporate America Fights Back: The Battle Over Waiver Of The Attorney-Client Privilege, Michael L. Seigel
Corporate America Fights Back: The Battle Over Waiver Of The Attorney-Client Privilege, Michael L. Seigel
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article addresses a topic that is the subject of an on-going and heated contest between the business lobby and its lawyers, on the one side, and the U.S. Department of Justice on the other. The fight is over federal prosecutors' escalating practice of requesting that corporations accused of criminal wrongdoing waive their attorney-client privilege as part of their cooperation with the government. The Department of Justice views privilege waiver as a legitimate and critical tool in its post-Enron battle against white collar crime. The business lobby views it as encroaching on corporations' fundamental right to protect confidential attorney-client communications. …