Recorded Webinar—CARROTS & STICKS: Trends in White-Collar Compliance and Enforcement

Webinar

Featuring

Ira Raphaelson, Senior Counsel, White & Case LLP and Former General Counsel, Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Gregory A. Brower, Shareholder, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP and Former Deputy General Counsel, FBI

Description:

Over the last two years, the Justice Department and more recently the Treasury Department and increasing numbers of non-US authorities have issued policy statements, guidance documents, and made speeches intending to make white-collar criminal enforcement more transparent. As recent federal prosecutions and consent decrees demonstrate, however, businesses enterprises and their corporate officers should not mistake clarity in the decision-making process for disinterest. Those enforcement actions and DOJ guidance reflect the need for consistent, committed corporate compliance procedures. Our speakers will analyze this year’s most important white-collar developments and trends, forecast future concerns, and discuss key refinements that can improve even the most effective corporate compliance program.

Speakers' Biographies

Ira Raphaelson

Ira Raphaelson is Senior Counsel in the Washington, DC office of White & Case LLP. Mr. Raphaelson is one of a handful of lawyers who has been a senior executive and general counsel of public companies, independent director, law firm partner, Presidential appointee, career prosecutor, trial lawyer, and academic. He was General Counsel of Las Vegas Sands Corp. and of Scientific Games Corp., acting also as Secretary to the Board of both companies. Mr. Raphaelson was a career prosecutor, serving as a U.S. Attorney and as Special Counsel for Financial Institutions at the Justice Department, a position to which he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate. In addition to his current law practice, Mr. Raphaelson is an independent director of Inspired Entertainment and is an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law.

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Gregory A. Brower

Gregory A. Brower is a Shareholder in the Las Vegas, NV and Washington, DC offices of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP. He is a member of Washington Legal Foundation’s voluntary Legal Policy Advisory Board and is the WLF Legal Pulse blog’s Featured Expert Contributor on white-collar crime and corporate compliance. Mr. Brower has a long history of public service, most recently as assistant director for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of Congressional Affairs and before that as FBI Deputy General Counsel. Also at the federal level, Mr. Brower was a U.S Attorney and General Counsel and Inspector General of the Government Publishing Office. At the state level, Mr. Brower served five terms in the Nevada Legislature, where he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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