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What is a lawyer’s duty when matters go wrong?

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Carroll Barry-Walsh looks at some pressing and very current issues around accountability and responsibility.

What should in-house General Counsels (or compliance personnel) do when they become aware that their organization – or senior people within it – are, or may be, behaving unlawfully?

It is not a new question. In 1991 the head of Salomon Brothers’ Government Trading Desk, Paul Mozer, deliberately breached the rules at

What

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