SEC/DOJ Changing Focus, Staff Attrition Challenges & TX GCs Discuss Their White-Collar Nightmares

(Sept. 20) – The world of white-collar criminal prosecutions and federal government enforcement actions is in turmoil or at least evolving significantly. Then, there is the so-called Trump effect on government regulation and prosecution of businesses.

Those are key topics so far at the University of Texas School of Law’s Fifth Annual Government Enforcement Institute underway in Dallas. The first half-day of the conference, which includes most of the highest ranking officials in federal corporate law enforcement, dozens of corporate general counsel and prominent white-collar criminal defense attorneys, provided the following headlines: