While the primary domestic anti-bribery statute, the FCPA, has been on the books for nearly four decades, the UK's principal anti-bribery law, the UK Bribery Act, is merely an infant, having become effective in July 2011.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has made clear that it intends on filing more enforcement actions in administrative proceedings, which are heard by its own Administrative Law Judges (ALJs).

Far surpassing letter writing and even phone calls, email has become the primary method by which attorneys communicate with their clients.

Recent court filings have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are continuing to conduct parallel criminal-civil investigations involving insider trading on Capitol Hill.

The federal statute criminalizing false statements, 18 U.S.C. § 1001, is one of the most widely-used tools in a federal prosecutor's toolbox.

Over 90% of federal criminal cases are resolved by plea agreement, and plea agreements typically require defendants to waive their rights to appeal their sentences.

Whether documents prepared in connection with an internal investigation are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine is a topic of continuing interest and current debate.

In the 1987 film "Wall Street," Gordon Gecko gives a memorable speech in which he declares "that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works."