Publications – Bio

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...