One Year After the Yates Memorandum

Today's General Counsel Howard Privette and Wayne Gross Dec/Jan 2017 Download PDF In September 2015, to great fanfare, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a policy directive entitled “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing.” The so-called “Yates Memorandum,” in reference to its author Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates, declared that...

The C-Suite in the Crosshairs: Federal Prosecutors Are Primed to Target Corporate Executives

Orange County Business Journal by Wayne R. Gross and Howard M. Privette October 19, 2015 Download as a PDF The first major policy initiative launched by the Department of Justice under new Attorney General Loretta Lynch is clear and unequivocal. In a September 9, 2015, memorandum, Deputy Attorney General Sally...

Safeguarding the Attorney-Client Privilege for Legal and Business Advice

Orange County Business Journal by Wayne Gross August 18, 2014 Download as a PDF When corporate officers seek the advice of in-house counsel on delicate matters, they frequently assume that the attorney-client privilege will ensure that sensitive information will not be disclosed in future litigation. It is true that the...

Lessons from a $50 Million Counterpunch

May 12, 2014 | Orange County Business Journal Download as a PDF As commercial real estate continues to rebound, a new generation of joint ventures are being formed between capital partners and development partners. These partners, basking in the glow of the exciting possibilities that await in an improving market,...

The Privilege of Service Continues

December 1, 2013 | President's Page, OC Lawyer Magazine by Wayne R. Gross One may long, as I do, for a gentler flame, a respite, a pause for musing. But perhaps there is no other peace for an artist than what he finds in the heat of combat. ... Let...

Our Code of Honor

November 1, 2013 | President's Page, OC Lawyer Magazine by Wayne R. Gross I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. —The Soldier’s Creed Both my father and the late Judge Waters, for whom I...

Elect to Participate

October 1, 2013 | President's Page, OC Lawyer Magazine by Wayne R. Gross Nobody will deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting. —Franklin D. Roosevelt When I was a boy, I...

Ephemeral Moments

September 1, 2013 | President's Page, OC Lawyer Magazine by Wayne R. Gross I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life. ... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. —Frank Sinatra I recently turned fifty. To celebrate, a...

Why We Wear Ties

August 1, 2013 | President’s Page, OC Lawyer Magazine Download as a PDF by Wayne R. Gross Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can! The Great Gatsby, 1925 A close friend in the fashion industry once told me that the best way to tell whether a male lawyer...

Lessons in Judicial Grace

July 1, 2013 | President’s Page, OC Lawyer Magazine Download as a PDF by Wayne R. Gross Like the pine trees lining the winding road I’ve got a name I’ve got a name ~ Jim Croce Upon graduating from law school, I had the good fortune of serving as a...

The Power of Saying Yes

June 1, 2013 | President’s Page, OC Lawyer Magazine Download as a PDF by Wayne R. Gross It seems to be a truth, inflexible and inexorable, that he who will not risk cannot win. ~ John Paul Jones The publication of this month’s Orange County Lawyer magazine marks the midway...

Making Justice a Reality for All

May 1, 2013 | President's Page, OC Lawyer Magazine by Wayne R. Gross A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. ~ John F. Kennedy Presiding Judge Thomas Borris, Assistant Presiding Judge Glenda Sanders, and I, among others from the Orange County Bar, recently...

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