New DOJ Pilot Program Creates New Legal Risks for Startups

By: Jonathan L. Fahey, Jonathan P. Lienhard, and Oliver Roberts

Corporate Counsel Magazine

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Jonathan Fahey, Jonathan Lienhard and Oliver Roberts co-authored "New DOJ Pilot Program Creates New Legal Risks for Startups" for Corporate Counsel Magazine.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has created new incentives for employees, or anyone, to report criminal misconduct allegedly committed by companies and their agents. Given their often laxer internal reporting structures and higher employee turnover rates, startup companies should pay particularly close attention to this new DOJ development to best mitigate legal risks.