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MESSAGE FROM
YOUR CO-CHAIRS
By Gary
Collins and Janet Levine
Thanks to the structural changes forged
by our predecessors the White Collar Crime Committee remains the
“premier forum for white collar crime issues nationally and
internationally.” Our
membership and attendance at our programs continues to grow. Regional committees continue to form and
to thrive; the programming and activities of established regional
committees continue to expand.
At our fall meeting, on November 1,
2007, in Washington, D.C., it was apparent both how extensive
and how timely our programming has been in just the last several
months. Besides the National
Institutes which we co-sponsor, including Institutes on Securities Fraud,
Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Reports, and Environmental
Enforcement, regional programming included sentencing, international
criminal investigations, recent developments in the FCPA, subpoenaing
sources, “Lessons from the Libby” case, and “Reflections
on the Trial of Joseph P. Naccio”. Our programs for this winter and spring
will be equally impressive and extensive.
We look forward to the National White
Collar Crime Institute on March 5-7, 2008 in Miami.
For newer lawyers, and those with newer lawyers in their firms,
please note the special session directed to newer lawyers on Wednesday
afternoon.
Our programming directed nationally and
regionally continues. We are
planning a new National Institute directed towards educating in-house
corporate counsel on the myriad and often unanticipated white collar crime
issues that permeate business, with a focus on the expansion into global
markets. Anyone who wishes to
participate in the planning committee should contact either of the
committee co-chairs, Janet I. Levine or Gary Collins. National Institutes on Securities Fraud,
the FCPA, and criminal intellectual property issues are expected in the
fall. We welcome ideas for other
programming---and we are available to assist in planning and support.
We continue to have a policy
focus. We have formed a working
committee that is exploring a national standard for “Upjohn”
warnings. The co-chairs of this
working committee are David Seide and Tom Hanusik. The issues addressed by our Report and
Recommendation on ethical issues raised by government requests for
attorney-client privilege waivers are currently before Congress. We are monitoring the progress of this
legislation.
Policy initiative suggestions are
always encouraged; please, if you have any such ideas, contact us as soon
as you can. At our next committee
meeting (March 6, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. in Miami in conjunction with the WCC
Conference), we will address any suggested initiatives, and if appropriate,
establish a working group. Also
submissions for the newsletter are always welcome.
We continue to strengthen our ties to
our parent Criminal Justice Section (CJS).
Both co-chairs attended the fall CJS meeting, and we intend to
attend the future CJS meetings, including in April in South
Carolina, in conjunction with the CJS Spring meeting, and in
August in New York City, in conjunction with
the ABA
annual meeting.
We look forward to seeing you in Miami at the National
Institute and at our next meeting.
Very
truly yours,
Gary
Collins
Janet
I. Levine
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