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Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

New York – January 16, 2024: Crowell & Moring has moved its New York office to Two Manhattan West in Hudson Yards.

On February 22, 2023, United States Attorneys for the Southern and Eastern District of New York announced a new, nationwide United States Attorneys’ Offices Voluntary Self-Disclosure (“VSD”) Policy. The policy applies to all United States Attorney’s Offices and is effective immediately. The implementation of the policy follows Deputy Attorney General Monaco’s September 15, 2022 memorandum instructing each component of the Department of Justice that prosecutes corporate crime to review, or draft and publicly share its policies on corporate voluntary self-disclosure and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr’s remarks on revisions to the Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement Policy. The VSD policy incentivizes companies to voluntarily disclose misconduct and offers significant benefits for timely disclosure.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on April 19th the launch of the new Office of Promoter Investigations (OPI) aimed at enforcement against promoters of abusive tax transactions, such as syndicated conservation easements and micro-captive insurance schemes, and expanding on the work the promoter investigations coordinator has been pursuing for the past year. The new office is part of the IRS’s Small Business and Self-Employed Division (SB/SE) and will be led by acting director Lois Deitrich, an IRS exam official with over 20 years of experience. Although the office is housed within SB/SE, it will coordinate promoter investigations throughout all IRS business units, including Criminal Investigation and the Office of Fraud Enforcement.

In this issue:

Smartphones are a universal fact of life in business today, where they help companies increase speed and productivity. But when it comes to potential white collar investigations and litigation, they are raising some difficult questions about preserving and accessing data.

Please click here for a copy of the presentation. As we discussed in our first This Year in Trade webinar earlier this year, as globalization pushes forward, the potential rewards – from trade, from expansion, from partnerships – have multiplied along with the risks. As a result, companies doing business around the world are facing a variety of important issues affecting their bottom line, including sanctions, export controls, customs, and many others. On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 12:00 pm Eastern, our Crowell & Moring team will follow up on our February 2015 predictions of the key trade issues to watch globally for 2015 and into 2016.