Representing Individuals in International Investigations

September-October 2016 | The Champion

Americans have long been great exporters of ideas, and the ideas about criminal justice have in recent years been no exception.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sees its beat as worldwide, focusing in the recent words of one assistant attorney general on "transnational criminal enterprises and global corporate misconduct." Indeed, it is now standard for companies to respond to the DOJ's demands for cooperation by launching internal investigations worldwide.

There are three simple reasons that this is so.