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October 14, 2008


Corporate counsels brace for more litigation

According to the annual Fulbright & Jaworski survey, they're expecting two of the most troublesome areas to be the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and wage-and-hour class actions. And that doesn't count the effects of the credit meltdown, which -- along with all sorts of civil liability matters -- is widely seen as bringing "an inevitable surge in criminal prosecutions" with white-collar criminal defense lawyers preparing their clients for a "wave of expected indictments".

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