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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Sean Radcliffe & T. Markus Funk, Investigating Alleged Board Member Misconduct, ACC Docket
Brandon L. Garrett & David Zaring, Dealbook, For a Better Way to Prosecute Corporations, Look Overseas
DOJ Press Release, Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Remarks at the Johnson & Johnson Press Conference
Zoe Tillman, BLT Blog, D.C. Circuit Weighs Ex-Congressional Aide's Corruption Fight
November 13, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, November 11, 2013
Prosecuting Individuals & Overcriminalization
The NYTimes Room for Debate has an opinion discussion on prosecuting individuals in the corporate sphere. My piece on overcriminalization is here.
November 11, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Daubert Hearing Produces Defense Win
The defendant was charged with two counts of allegedly mailing threatening communications (18 U.S.C. § 876) and two counts of intentionally conveying false and misleading information (18 U.S.C. § 1038(a)(1)). The defendant challenged the "government's introduction of testimony by a handwriting expert pursuant to Federal Rules of Evidence 702 and 403." In this case it was a report and expert testimony of a US Postal Service handwriting analyst. The district court found that under the Daubert and Kumho standards "that the science or art underlying handwriting analysis falls well short of a reliability threshold when applied to hand printing analysis." This case was handled by Stephen J. Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin).
November 5, 2013 in Judicial Opinions, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, October 7, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Jim Galloway, AJC, State Sen. Don Balfour indicted on 16 counts
Andy Vuong, Denver Post, Former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio in post-prison interview: "I trust Spoonie and Juice with my back."
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Brennan Center Blog, Scandal Built for Two
Daniel Beekman, NYDaily News, Giant screw Bernie Madoff kept in office won't be shown in criminal trial of former employees
David Koenig, Yahoo Sports, Mark Cuban's drive to win led him to cheat
Elkan Abramowitz & Jonathan Sack, New York Law Journal, Why So Few Prosecutions Connected to the Financial Crisis?
October 7, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, October 6, 2013
A Stacked Deck? The SEC's Administrative Route
The New York Times' Gretchen Morgenson should be declared a national treasure. She continues to write about the financial crisis, and legal and regulatory issues related to the crisis, at a level far above most of her contemporaries. In today's New York Times she explains the administrative law process through which the SEC brings many of its enforcement actions against individuals. The Administrative Law Judges deciding the cases are SEC employees and appellate reversals are rare. Dodd-Frank expanded the kinds of cases that can be heard by the ALJs. All of this is known to the securities bar, but not to otherwise intelligent and informed lay readers, because hardly anyone ever writes about it. Morgenstern's story is here.
October 6, 2013 in Media, News, SEC, Securities | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, September 23, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Mark Hamblett & Sara Randazzo, The AmLaw Daily, Ex-Kirkland Partner Sentenced to One Year For Tax Fraud
George J. Terwilliger III, National Law Journal, Walking a Tightrope in White-Collar Investigations
AP, Las Vegas Sun, Ex-Akamai exec barred for 5 years in SEC case; Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg, Ex-Akamai Executive Settles SEC Suit Over Rajaratnam Tips
Nate Raymond, Reuters, Baltimore Sun, U.S. prosecutor cautions against white-collar sentencing revamp
Jennifer Koons, Main Justice, Former Enron Prosecutor Tapped to Head Criminal Division
Zachery Fagenson, Reuters, Ex-Bolivian anti-corruption official denied bail in Miami extortion case
September 23, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, June 28, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Amanda Bronstad, Nat L.J., Report: Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag
Walter Pavlo, Forbes, The High Cost Of Mounting A White-Collar Criminal Defense
Covington & Burling, Senior DOJ Criminal Division Official Rejoins Covington (Daniel Suleiman)
Steptoe, Former DOJ Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein Joins Steptoe
Hunton & Williams, Hunton & Williams LLP Adds Former Federal Prosecutor Laura Marshall to
White Collar Team, Expands Global Litigation Practice
Bernie Madoff Exhibit Opens at Crime Museum here
Wiliiam Shepherd (Chair, ABA Criminal Justice Section; Hollad and Knight, partner), recently testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Overcriminalization. See here and here.
DOJ Press Release, Former Congressman Richard G. Renzi Convicted of Extortion and Bribery in
Illegal Federal Land Swap
June 28, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, June 24, 2013
The Wall Street Journal Takes Aim At Comey
In what should be a surprise to no one, the Wall Street Journal editorial page today launched an attack on James Comey, President Obama's nominee to be the next FBI Director. The primary offenses? Comey's objection to the Bush Administration's illegal warrantless wiretapping and Comey's appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald as Special Counsel to investigate the Valerie Plame leak. The editorial is here. More commentary on this in the next few days.
Coming soon: Professor Podgor's analysis of the Second Circuit's opinion afffirming Raj Rajaratnam's conviction for insider trading violations.
June 24, 2013 in Current Affairs, Legal Ethics, Media, News, Plame Investigation, Prosecutions, Prosecutors, Statutes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Non-arrested Person Asserting Right to Silence Must Assert Constitution
In Salinas v. Texas, the Supreme Court in a bizarre, unrealistic 5-4 (or more precisely 3/2-4) decision announced yesterday seemed to rule that the pre-arrest silence of a person not in custody may be introduced at trial against that person and commented upon in summation by the prosecutor -- unless that person specifically invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Scalia, concurred only in the result, arguing that Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965), which prohibited prosecutorial use of a defendant's invocation of silence at trial, should not be extended to pre-arrest situations.
According to Justice Alito and two others (Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy), the individual had the responsibility to demonstrate at the time of his invocation of silence that it was based on his constitutional rights. ("[I]t would have been a simple matter for him to say that he was not answering the officer's questions on Fifth Amendment grounds.") Much like a trial lawyer, the defendant thus had the responsibility to make a proper contemporaneous record or forfeit any future legal claim. ("A witness's constitutional right to refuse to answer questions depends on his reasons for doing so, and the courts need to know those reasons to evaluate the merits of a Fifth Amendment claim.") Thus, the rules for making a record for a defendant represented by counsel in a courtroom have apparently been extended to an uncounseled layperson on the street or in a police station.
Salinas may affect the advice a white-collar lawyer (or any lawyer) might provide to a non-arrested client who the lawyers suspect might be approached by a law enforcement agent. Instead of advising the client merely to decline to speak with the law enforcement official, the lawyer should also probably advise the client to explicitly state that his refusal is based on the Fifth (and perhaps also the Sixth) Amendment. Indeed, perhaps white-collar lawyers should follow the lead of some other criminal lawyers and print the invocation of the Fifth (and Sixth) on the reverse side of their business cards.
June 18, 2013 in News, Privileges | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Shargel to Join Winston & Strawn
Gerald Shargel, perhaps the pre-eminent criminal defense lawyer in New York City, has left his solo practice to join the 900-lawyer firm of Winston & Strawn. Shargel's move is embelmatic of two trends: the expansion of white-collar and not so white-collar criminal defense practices of large firms and the exodus of criminal practioners from solo or small partnership practices.
Mr. Shargel's transition is a boon to Winston & Strawn but a loss to the independent, private defense bar that is diminishing in number, income and quality.
June 12, 2013 in Defense Counsel, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, May 24, 2013
Did Lois Lerner Waive the Fifth?
Most witnesses with potential criminal exposure who are called to testify before Congressional hearings take the stand, with their lawyers behind them, and repeat the incantation "I respectfully decline to answer the question based on my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination," or some variation. Occasionally, a witness insists on testifying in spite of a danger that his answers might incriminate him or, if in conflict with other witnesses' statements or other evidence, might lead to a perjury or obstruction prosecution. One notable example is Roger Clemens, who chose to testify and, although ultimately acquitted, was indicted and lost millions of dollars in legal fees and endorsements.
Lois Lerner, an embattled Internal Revenue Service official called to testify before a Congressional hearing earlier this week, tried to have her cake and eat it too. She made a brief opening statement declaring her innocence ("I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any I.R.S. rules and regulations, and I have not provided false information to this or any other Congressional committee."). She then invoked her constitutional right not to testify. Committee Chair Daryl Issa (R-Calif.) and other Congressmen claimed that, by her opening declaration, she had waived her privilege and therefore was required to answer the Committee's questions.
Some lawyers have criticized Ms. Lerner's counsel, William Taylor III, one of the most highly-respected criminal defense lawyers in the nation, for allowing Ms. Lerner to make an opening statement, claiming that at the very least that she placed herself at risk of waiving her constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. See here. Although the area of waiver of privilege is indeed murky, with cases going in different directions, I believe Ms. Lerner did not waive her right to silence by her unspecific denials. As Miranda v. Arizona itself says, "If the individual indicates in any manner, at any time prior to or during questioning, that he wishes to remain silent, the interrogation must cease." 384 U.S. 436, 473-4, fn. 44.
Nonetheless, courts sometimes bend over backwards to "punish" what appears to them as gamesmanship. Many years ago, a New York City Congressman, Mario Biaggi, in response to a "leak" disclosing he had invoked his privilege in the grand jury and refused to answer questions, declared publicly that he had cooperated fully and answered all the jury's questions -- a statement which was far from true -- and that he had instructed his attorneys to seek release of his testimony to prove it. His attorneys moved for disclosure of testimony, no doubt expecting the motion to be denied. (The United States Attorney also so moved.) The district court, however, as later affirmed by the Court of Appeals, held that Biaggi had waived the privilege and ordered the release of his entire transcript. In re Biaggi, 478 F.2d 489 (2d Cir. 1973).
Even though I believe that ultimately it will not be determined (or probably even litigated) that Ms. Lerner waived her privilege against self-incrimination, I wonder whether her brief declaration of innocence -- by itself unlikely to persuade anyone -- was worth the risk, however slight. My guess -- pure guess -- is that the decision to allow her to make her brief opening statement was a compromise made between a careful lawyer and a client, like many I have represented, who adamantly desired to testify. Of course, professional discretion would prevent Mr. Taylor from shifting any blame.
May 24, 2013 in Congress, Contempt, Current Affairs, Defense Counsel, News, Privileges | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
DOJ Press Release, Parker Drilling Company Resolves FCPA Investigation and Agrees to Pay $11.76 Million Penalty; Corporate Crime Reporter, Parker Drilling Gets FCPA Prosecution Deferred, to Pay $11.76 Million
DOJ Press Release, Former Investment Banker and His Associate Plead Guilty in San Francisco to
Insider Trading Scheme
Phil Willon, LATimes, Charges filed in San Bernardino airport corruption probe
Adam Kaufmann & Arthur Middlemiss Join Lewis Baach PLLC - see here
May 14, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, April 22, 2013
Will the "Public Safety Emergency Exception" Apply in White-Collar Cases?
The government decision to delay Miranda warnings, and also the first appearance before a judge and the assignment of counsel, for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving alleged Boston Marathon bomber, was a tactical one, no doubt based largely on an evaluation that any admission Tsarnaev makes is unnecessary to a government case (eyewitnesses, an admission, videotapes, possession of explosives, flight, etc.) which appears to be overwhelming.
The broad "public safety emergency exception" which the government asserts is a questionable Department of Justice attempt to expand the narrow exception announced in New York v. Quarles, 467 U.S. 649 (1984). The government's aggressive stance is based in part on a belief that Miranda does not prescribe a procedural requirement for police questioning, but is only a prerequisite for the admissibility at trial of statements made by a defendant. Under such reasoning, government agents are free to violate the dictates of Miranda (and perhaps other constitutional rights) with no harm to their case except a return to the status quo ante.
Aggressive law enforcement tactics against criminal suspects accused of particular heinous crimes, such as terrorism, murder, kidnapping and large-scale drug dealing, gradually work their way into the general law enforcement toolbox. Tactics used against drug dealers and organized crime figures, such as extensive electronic surveillance, undercover agents, forfeiture of assets and disallowance of attorneys' fees, and exceedingly high bail requests, for instance, are no longer uncommon in white collar cases.
I wonder whether the "public safety emergency exception" is so far off. If it is acceptable under this exception to allow the government to disregard Miranda and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5(a)(1)(A) (requiring agents to bring one arrested before a court "without necessary delay") in order ostensibly to prevent future terrorist crimes, will it also become acceptable to detain for 48 hours and question without Miranda warnings, for instance, those who have provided inside information about unknown persons to whom they might have provided such information in order to deter imminent or future insider trading or those who have hacked computers about accomplices or others who might commit imminent or future computer crimes?
April 22, 2013 in Computer Crime, Current Affairs, Insider Trading, News, Privileges | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Administrative Judge Reverses Suspension of Stevens Prosecutors
An administrative judge for the Merit Systems Protection Board has overturned the DOJ internal decision finding reckless misconduct for violating Brady obligations by two prosecutors of Senator Ted Stevens, Joseph Bottini and James Goeke, and ordering their suspensions. See here.
The administrative judge ruled that DOJ had violated its own disciplinary procedures which require a rank-and-file DOJ attorney in the Professional Misconduct Review Unit to review OPR findings and determine whether misconduct had occurred. The career attorney who reviewed the OPR findings, Terrence Berg (now a federal district judge in Michigan), decided in favor of the prosecutors, but his ruling was reviewed and reversed by his superiors, who found that misconduct had occurred and suspensions were appropriate. Review and reversal by the superiors, said the administrative judge, was improper procedurally, and the rank-and file attorney's decision was non-reviewable and final.
I lack sufficient familiarity with administrative law to opine whether this decision is wrong (although Prof. Bennett L. Gershman has made a strong case that it is). See here. I recognize that prosecutors, like those they prosecute, are entitled to due process. However, procedural infirmities aside, the actions of the prosecutors were clear enough and serious enough to warrant on the merits a finding of misconduct and a suspension. See here.
I find it ironic that DOJ's finding of misconduct was (according to the administrative judge) based on DOJ's own procedural misconduct. More seriously, however, I find extremely troubling the notion that a DOJ prosecutor's misconduct should be finally determined by a fellow career DOJ prosecutor. Defense lawyers, for instance, are not entitled to have their alleged misconduct weighed by a fellow defense lawyer.
A prosecutor's alleged misconduct ideally should be determined by the appropriate state bar disciplinary committee, not a fellow prosecutor (or fellow prosecutors). Of course, bar disciplinary committees, as several commentators have pointed out, have been extraordinarily hesitant to discipline prosecutors, especially with respect to Brady violations.
DOJ has the right to appeal to the three-judge Merit Systems Protection Board. It will be interesting to see if it does.
April 11, 2013 in Judicial Opinions, Legal Ethics, News, Prosecutors | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, March 29, 2013
White Collar Criminal Law is Heating Up?
Two news items today highlight that the white collar area continues to be a key component of the criminal justice system. In Atlanta we see a Fulton County Grand Jury issuing indictments for claims that an alleged test cheating scandal involves criminal activity. See Michael Winerip, NYTimes, Former Atlanta Schools Chief Is Charged in Testing Scandal.
And the headline of the Tampa Bay Times is FBI Raid Signals End of Universal - an article describing the FBI raid of Universal Health Care.
March 29, 2013 in Investigations, News, Searches | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, March 28, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Wes Reber Porter, law.com (The Recorder), Viewpoint: Sentencing Guidelines Needn't Be Scrapped
DOJ Criminal Division Head Lanny A. Breuer Returns to Covington As Vice Chair
Amanda Bronstad, NLJ, Ex-Nixon Peabody partner's co-defendant draws 10-year sentence in Ponzi scheme
Mark Niesse & Bill Rankin, Atlanta Jrl Constitution, Charges expected in APS test-cheating scandal
March 28, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, March 17, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Peter Lattman, NYTimes, SAC Capital to Pay $616 Million in Insider Trading Cases
Paul Kish, Federal Criminal Lawyer Blog, Divided Atlanta Federal Appeals Court Upholds Florida Mail Fraud and Bribery Conviction: the Latest Saga in the "Honest Services" Debate
Mary M. Chapman, NYTimes, Former Mayor of Detroit Guilty in Corruption Case
Adam Nossiter, NYTimes, U.S. Embassy Criticizes Pardons in Nigerian Corruption Cases
Nate Raymond, Thomson Reuters, Rakoff says sentencing guidelines should be 'scrapped'
Robert W. Wood, Forbes, Ernst & Young's $123M Non-Prosecution Agreement Over Tax Shelters: Priceless
Michael Pollick, The Herald Tribune, Danish lawyer charged in Morgans' Ponzi scheme
Deon Daugherty, Houston Business Journal, Judge accepts Transocean's $400M criminal settlement
March 17, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
In the News & Around the Blogopshere
David Oscar Markus, Southern District of Florida Blog, A Call to the Judiciary
Sherri Qualters, National Law Jrl, law.com, Lawyer gets home confinement for failing to report
boss's mortgage fraud
Texas State Securities Board, Foreign Notes Scammer Sentenced to 80 Years in State Prison
This Week From 500 Pearl Street
Casey Sullivan, Reuters (Chicago Tribune), Prominent NY prosecutor enters private practice
Thomson/Reuters, Money News, Former Goldman Director Seeks Reversal of Insider Trading
Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg News, Gupta Says in Appeal Trial Judge Hampered Defense Case
Todd Ruger & Jenne Greene, National Law Jrl, Securities bar predicts White will be 'tough sheriff' at SEC
Sherri Qualters, National Law Jrl, Alleged hacker's prosecutor defends case, stressing low
sentence sought
DOJ Press Release, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer Announces Departure from Department of Justice
DOJ Press Release, Former Chief Financial Officer of Stanford Financial Group Entities Sentenced to Prison for Role in Fraud Scheme and Obstruction
Katie Couric Show, Cheating? Lying? Why Do We Do It?
Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, Prosecutors Mounting New Case Against Blackwater Security Guards
February 5, 2013 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, February 4, 2013
Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition
Announcement from the Fordham Law Moot Court Board
Each spring, Fordham University School of Law hosts the Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition. Held in honor of Chief Judge Kaufman, a Fordham Alumnus who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Kaufman Competition has a rich tradition
of bringing together complex securities law issues, talented student advocates, and top legal minds.
This year's Kaufman Competition will take place on March 22-24, 2013. The esteemed final round panel includes Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of the Tenth Circuit; Judge Boyce F. Martin, Jr., of the Sixth Circuit; Judge Jane Richards Roth, of the Third Circuit; and Commissioner Troy A. Paredes, of
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The competition will focus on two issues that arise in the fallout of Ponzi schemes: whether the "stockbroker safe harbor" of the Bankruptcy Code applies to Ponzi scheme operators, and the application of SLUSA, which was recently granted cert by the Supreme Court.
We are currently soliciting practitioners and academics to judge oral argument rounds and grade competition briefs. No securities law experience is required to participate and CLE credit is available.
Information about the Kaufman Competition and an online Judge Registration Form is available on our website, www.law.fordham.edu/kaufman. Please contact Michael N. Fresco, Kaufman Editor, at email@example.com or (561) 707-8328 with any questions.
February 4, 2013 in Conferences, News, Scholarship, Securities | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, January 28, 2013
Casey Anthony Seeks Bankruptcy Protection for Legal Fees
Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of murdering her daughter Caylee Marie in 2011, has filed for bankruptcy in federal bankruptcy court in Florida. She has listed approximate assets of $1,100 and debts of $800,000, including $500,000 due Jose Baez, one of her defense attorneys. See here. I was pleased to see no debt listed for my colleague and friend Cheney Mason, who as Baez' co-counsel, added gravitas, savvy and experience to Ms. Anthony's defense team.
It is not surprising for a criminal defense lawyer not to be paid a large part of the legal fees owed to her. I venture that the average criminal defense lawyer is "beat" for some 10-20% of her fees. And I do not know how much Baez actually did receive in fees, but I am sure nothing like the fees many white-collar lawyers and firms often receive for representation in criminal matters of institutions or individuals, even those who never get close to being indicted. Of course, the Anthony case did provide Baez considerable fame.
January 28, 2013 in Attorney Fees, Current Affairs, Defense Counsel, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


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VIETNAM'S media is state-owned, its blogs and bloggers monitored and its occasional protests attended by uniformed officers while being filmed by plain-clothes ones. However, if you want a SIM card, and thus a new number, for your mobile phone it is no harder than handing over a few dollars. Unlike much of the rest of the world, including neighbouring Cambodia, no photo ID is required. One international telecommunications expert was amazed at how free Vietnam is compared to other nations, in this one respect at least.
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Bob Loveless, one of knifemaking's legends, passed away yesterday morning. His work influenced a lot of people. His selfless sharing of techniques and information left a mark on many knife makers and aficionados. I remember how, many years ago, I found his book "How to make knives" at a friend's grandfather's library and just couldn't put it down. It was my first contact with the custom knife world (some fifteen years later, that book was left to me in the old gent's will). Besides his clean, functional and beautiful designs Loveless brought a lot of innovation to knife making at a time when everything seemed to be stagnating. He turned people onto what we now call "super steels" by bringing ATS-34 to the US from Japan for knife making. He showed materials like Micarta could bring better performance than any of the previously used handle materials. He helped start the Knifemaker's Guild. Those of us who eat, breathe and live knives he's one of those men that you can't help mentioning when discussing the modern knife, together with men like Scagel, Bo Randall and Bill Moran. He was also a gun guy like us. I had a chance to meet him and his wife Yoshiko during an interview for a Spanish magazine. I remember his 1911 on the coffee table and his fantastic sense of humour. I was just there as a translator, and I was tremendously nervous. It was one of my first gigs and to make matters worse I worshipped the guy. I was terrified to make a mistake. After listening to him talk about his knives I decided to adopt my "no safe queens" rule. His knives are now worth thousands of dollars, which kind of pissed him off. Looking through some old press clippings I had gathered during my research I found this phrase which always makes me smile. Ha said it back in 1980. "Why would anyone pay $3,000 for a hunting knife? They say, because my name is on it. I'm carrying an awfully big rep. If I were a gunfighter, I'd be hiding in a cave somewhere. But I wouldn't spend that much money for a knife if it were autographed by Jesus Christ himself!" Rest in peace, Mr. Loveless.
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R.I.P. Bob
Godspeed Mr. Loveless - Your contributions shall not be forgotten! JD
** mad respect **
Beautiful craftsmanship. Rest in peace sir.
Not quite to knives what JMB was to firearms, but a giant in the field.
R. I. P. Mr. Loveless sir! Your devoted contributions to craftsmanship and design function will always be in the forefront of other knife creations. ** Respect **
His genius has been judged by about 40 years of "innovation" now, and most of the "cutting edge" designs(including mine) are derivations on his work. If you think I lack admiration for Mr. Loveless; well, I know you're uninformed because you know damn little of me. I love ya JD, you've been damn decent to me since I discovered this coffeeklatch, but I think sometimes you're a wee bit fond of bringing the hammer down with a "declaration of truth".
Never into knives too much and had never heard of Robert Loveless until now; my loss. His knives are artwork, pleasing to the eye and of obvious functional utility. May you rest in peace, Sir!
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It was my granddaughters birthday- so we took 12 kids with the full day bounce passes because the birthday party packages don't give enough play time. I would perfer if they charged more money and gave the kids up to 2.5 hours of play time in order to make the trip out there worth the drive.
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It was clean and just right for my grandchildren (10,8,4,3) I liked the chairs and small table. I also like that I can bring water in for the kids to drink. It is nice that we can play go to shop or have lunch and come back. The thing I didn't like is that there are no plug in to charge my kindle while I sit with the grand kids.
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4.18 / 5.00 3,450 ViewsSo this is the trailer for the upcoming collab. The Orange Box Collab. Be sure to watch for the collab coming out prolly by the end of this week.
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Implementing sustainability: the role of leadership and organizational culture.
This article is based on a study supported by IMA's Foundation for Applied Research (FAR).Executives recognize the importance of social and environmental responsibility--corporate sustainability--but they seldom implement it successfully. The challenge lies in how to actually integrate sustainability into operational and capital investment decision making and implement it successfully in large, complex, for-profit organizations. The financial executive plays a vital role.
Top management typically cascades these management decisions down because sustainability impacts are often local, so usually only a small number of these decisions are made at corporate headquarters. As individual managers at the business units, geographical units, and facilities make these decisions, they also must make the appropriate tradeoffs regarding social and environmental impacts vs. financial ones. Typically, the vice president of sustainability, who reports to the CEO, requests improved sustainability performance, while the CEO and CFO demand improved financial performance. At the same time, a company provides little guidance and support to senior- and middle-level operations managers to aid in the decision making and tradeoffs. How can they manage this challenge successfully?
Field Study Brings New Findings
In the January 2008 issue of Strategic Finance,Marc J. Epstein presented the Corporate Sustainability Model, a comprehensive approach for examining, measuring, and managing the drivers of corporate sustainability. The model can help managers incorporate a sustainability strategy into daily operations and link that strategy to specific actions that improve both sustainability and financial performance.
Epstein argues that, to improve the sustainability strategy implementation process, managers should carefully identify and measure key performance drivers included among the various inputs and processes. The drivers of the model include:
* External context (regulatory and geographical),
* Internal context (mission, corporate strategy, corporate organizational structure, organizational culture, and systems),
* Business context (industry sector, customers, and products), and
* Human and financial resources.
The inputs guide leaders in making decisions so they can develop an appropriate sustainability strategy; set up aligned structures, systems, and programs; and take action. The managerial actions lead to positive or negative sustainability performance and stakeholder reactions, ultimately affecting long-term corporate financial performance. This model should help managers better analyze and manage these drivers as well as pursue social and environmental impacts more effectively. Figure 1 illustrates the Corporate Sustainability Model.
Recently, the Foundation for Applied Research (FAR) of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA[R]) sponsored a research study to examine how leading corporations integrate economic, social, and environmental impacts into day-to-day management decision making.
The research focused on four companies:
* Nike, the world's leading designer, marketer, and distributor of athletic products and clothing;
* Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world's leading branded consumer products companies;
* The Home Depot, the world's largest home-improvement specialty retailer; and
* Nissan North America, a unit of Nissan Motor Co., a leading global auto manufacturer.
These companies have reputations for leading practices in managing sustainability and have high ratings on various indexes on sustainability performance. We conducted open-ended, semi-structured interviews with senior managers, business unit and facility managers, geographical unit managers, functional managers, and sustainability managers. The study investigated how managers currently make tradeoffs and simultaneously manage social, environmental, and financial performance. We also looked at systems and performance measures that they use to facilitate these decisions and at the characteristics of organizations and their environments, their formal and informal support systems and processes (including performance evaluation, rewards, organizational culture, leadership, etc.), and initiatives that facilitate managing social, environmental, and financial performance simultaneously. The study also attempted to better understand the role of hard or soft implementation systems. Hard systems are the formal systems that include structure, performance evaluation, and incentive systems that motivate employee behavior. Soft systems are the informal systems such as organizational culture, leadership, and people.
It's these informal systems--organizational culture, leadership, and people--that nurture a company's drive for sustainability. Although sensitive to stakeholder concerns and impacts, these leading companies are committed internally to improving corporate sustainability performance. While generally considered a significant tool to implement sustainability and align the corporation's interests, formal implementation systems have a secondary role in implementing sustainability programs successfully. All four companies incorporate sustainability issues in their corporate strategies, they have specific sustainability strategies and aligned organizational structures, and they have in place performance measurement systems with some social and environmental metrics. But leadership and organizational culture are the most crucial determinants in successfully managing the various tradeoffs that middle managers face when they try to manage social, environmental, and financial performance simultaneously. The Corporate Sustainability Model highlights the following drivers: the internal context with the organizational culture, leadership, and human resources.
We'll describe how Nike, Procter & Gamble, The Home Depot, and Nissan North America are using leadership and organizational culture to encourage employees to pursue and drive organizational success in sustainability. Only after a company uses these informal or soft systems can it use the formal or hard systems of strategy, structure, and programs to improve success.
Managing Social, Environmental, and Financial Performance Simultaneously
How to manage the paradox of improving social, environmental, and financial goals simultaneously is one of a company's biggest challenges. Integrating corporate social, environmental, and financial impacts into operational and capital investment decisions comes with a lot of tension. While social and financial initiatives may benefit one another in the long term, they're often conflicting in their need for resources and agendas in the short run. Also, clear, measurable, short-term metrics apply to financial initiatives, whereas measurements of social performance are often uncertain and long term. Sometimes there are win-win situations, such as when waste and emissions are reduced, that save both company costs and environmental damage. But often the decision alternatives are seen as tradeoffs, and managers throughout the business units and facilities must struggle to evaluate social, environmental, and financial impacts. At the end of the day, they make decisions while being accountable for excellent performance in both.
In our study, however, managers told us they didn't see the tradeoffs as difficult, either because they prioritized financial performance or because their companies could accomplish both at the same time. The Home Depot, for example, doesn't view the tradeoffs between sustainability goals and business goals as problematic. They rarely see a tradeoff as a win-lose situation; when this is the case, win-lose tradeoffs are typically resolved in favor of business goals. In most cases, there are win-win situations. In fact, whenever an environmental or social issue becomes important to the customer or the public, it becomes important to The Home Depot, and addressing it becomes a win-win situation. Essentially, the belief is that "We do the right thing, and it is good for business as well."When meeting a more stringent regulatory or company-set environmental or social standard would require additional costs, managers would work together to identify areas where they could reduce other costs.
At Nike, tradeoffs are only in the short term. For example, using environmentally preferred materials may increase some manufacturing costs, but, by reducing waste, the company decreases costs. A company can reduce costs using Considered Design, which is Nike's program to improve product sustainability by focusing on design. Nike's goal is to fuel constant improvements in its design and production processes that lessen its impact on the environment and society, using sustainability as a source of innovation. Nike designers successfully innovate in how they use various materials. The choice of design and materials has produced dramatic decreases in footwear and packaging waste, which means a reduction in the use of potentially harmful chemicals while increasing the performance of the product.
P&G, too, sees innovation as the solution to the sustainability challenge. P&G managers have widened their organizational perspective to see the broader picture and capture benefits beyond a particular issue or cost. They strive to create products that enable consumers to be more environmentally sustainable. Improving efficiency of the entire product life cycle from cradle to grave is a major focus of P&G's sustainability efforts. As one senior executive stated, "We're values-based, innovation-driven, and we see the business value of sustainability." P&G thus attempts to accomplish both environmental and financial goals and performance simultaneously. For Nissan North America, the evaluation of environmental and financial impacts typically doesn't present a tradeoff because of the company's declared focus on energy-usage reduction for Nissan and its customers. This is usually a win-win scenario.
Social and environmental considerations are deeply embedded in decision making at Nike, Procter & Gamble, The Home Depot, and Nissan North America. Nike, for example, developed a strategic approach to corporate responsibility (CR) that emphasized value creation, collaboration with business units, and proactive strategic planning. This is why managers believe that they aren't typically making tradeoffs and are more often recognizing win-win situations. Environmental win-wins (decisions that simultaneously benefit the environment and corporate profits) are often more noticeable than social win-wins. This may be because of more measurement and evaluation techniques as well as performance measures in place for corporate environmental impacts than for most of the social impacts managers typically confront. But these leading companies have made many tradeoffs spontaneously because they've incorporated the concerns for social and environmental impacts into the culture. The role of leadership in accomplishing this is crucial.
The Role of Leadership
In all four companies, there are fewer conflicts for senior and middle managers in balancing social, environmental, and financial performance because these conflicts are resolved higher up in the organization and are well integrated into the informal systems. Upper management has bought in to the benefits relating to sustainability. Thus people are able to make certain tradeoffs because they know their leaders will be supportive.
Corporate responsibility is one of Nike's nine strategic priorities. The CEO and other company leaders support CR intensively and consider it an enhancing element in reaching strategic goals. In fact, leadership engagement is number one."Making a sustainable decision that negatively impacts margins is not so wrong, but they have to inform me because we can offset this somewhere else," one vice president explained. "I want to give guidance to subordinates because I don't want to have them struggle with it [the tradeoffs related to making social, environmental, and financial decisions]. And we need to teach them because all these decisions cannot be done by me alone." This training takes place through information sharing and collaboration. People learn as they become part of the process where leaders make decisions.
Similarly, at P&G the focus on sustainability starts with a clear desire on the part of the leadership to make something happen. Leadership is one of its core values, and P&G's leaders are responsible for successfully integrating sustainability into the rhythm of P&G's business. "We aim to make sustainability something the business units want to do because it helps build the business," stated one vice president. Once people understand the goal, creativity and innovation immediately follow.
The Home Depot views the job of the individual store manager as among the most significant in the organization. Along with the CEO, they are committed and passionate about sustainability, volunteerism in particular.
The Nissan CEO sets the corporate direction and centralizes corporate social responsibility (CSR). The company develops a midterm plan that addresses the question "How do we grow in harmony with sustainability?" and publicly commits to a plan. In Nissan North America, the managers' role in leadership is to promote stakeholder value with specific orientation to environmental concerns. There's the belief that it's very important to get people in the decision-making roles who have the mindset of "Now we have limited natural resources." Leadership support in promoting sustainability is of great importance.
The Role of Organization Culture
A typical culture that builds on sustainability helps managers and other decision makers deal with the tradeoffs that the simultaneous management of social, environmental, and financial goals often causes. At Nike, P&G, The Home Depot, and Nissan North America, the corporate culture emphasizes norms critical for innovation, such as openness, autonomy, initiative, and, in many cases, risk taking.
The Home Depot's culture, for example, is all about an entrepreneurial high-spiritedness and a willingness to take risks, as well as a passionate commitment to customers, colleagues, the company, and the community. "Orange blood" runs through the veins of its associates. Employees view sustainability performance as vital to The Home Depot's long-term financial success even though incentives aren't based on social and environmental performance. Also, many Home Depot employees are environmentally and socially conscious and have been the driving force of some environmental initiatives, such as the Framing Hope project, which donates to nonprofit organizations damaged and outdated product that would otherwise go to landfills. The company strengthens and transmits its culture by maintaining transparency and open lines of communication. It runs a weekly televised show for store and department managers that discusses issues of interest for company employees that may include policies, products, programs, personnel, and the like, and that provides an opportunity for better communication throughout the company. The CEO can talk to employees and get feedback from them. The Home Depot also provides a mechanism for employee feedback through the company's intranet.
P&G, an innovation-driven and values-based company, values everyone's opinion, so there's a good deal of discussion, even at the lowest level. It does things from the bottom up and by consensus, and it focuses on "the right thing to do" even if sometimes that's more expensive. P&G took this motto from one of its core values--integrity--that says, "We always try to do the right thing." Since people come in young, move through P&G, and create organic networks, there's a strong sense of trust and unity. Like The Home Depot, P&G promotes primarily from within, which makes it easier to build a strong corporate culture since most employees have a long tenure with the company. P&G is also encouraging sustainability behavior and culture through another core value--ownership--that expects employees to act like owners, treating the company's assets as their own and behaving with the company's long-term success in mind.
A lot of Nike employees intuitively believe that sustainability is the right thing. This mind-set builds the brand. Sustainability is integrated into the rhythm of the business, including employee engagement and encouraging employees to contribute their ideas. Young employees, many of them ex-athletes with a strong spirit of competitiveness and entrepreneurship; young customers; and a strong culture around sustainability, success, and innovation reinforce and support the sustainability actions.
At Nissan North America, the mind-set and actions focus on environmental impacts. Environmental issues cascade down to the analyst level. "I'd like to think our culture has evolved such that we weave in environmental concerns," one senior manager said. To shift mind-sets, 99% of the staff has gone through green training to gain understanding and sustainability awareness, which the company views as integral for acceptance of corporate social responsibility initiatives. At the core of the company's corporate culture is the Nissan Way, which includes a "cross-functional, cross-cultural" business approach and a "commit and target" strategy. Nissan expects to achieve profitable, sustainable growth into the future. Creating a corporate culture that values the environment continues to be one of Nissan's major objectives. Activities vary across the plants, but they generally include monthly newsletters to raise staff awareness about the environment, participation of the plant's workforce in facility inspections and lectures, participation in environmental management system training, etc.
Sustainability is a personal issue at all four companies. They want to do something good. Company leaders at Nike don't tell people what to do but rather--"just do it." The P&G motto is "go and make it happen," so employees find a way to make it work. These aren't companies of dictates.
These companies perform annual culture assessments and encourage employees to participate in anonymous surveys. Employees participate because they've already experienced that their voices were heard. The Home Depot's CEO, for example, reviews all employee suggestions--some 300 to 400 per week--and posts responses to many of them. Nissan regularly carries out worldwide employee surveys, gauging employees' attitudes and using the survey results to help improve the company's management and corporate culture.
The Home Depot, in particular, has found volunteerism to be a critical building block of corporate culture. The company espouses eight core values: excellent customer service, entrepreneurial spirit, taking care of our people, respect for all people, building strong relationships, doing the right thing, giving back, and creating shareholder value. It views giving back as the most important. According to a senior vice president, "There's a strong cultural tie to volunteering. If we post a sign that says 'sign up for KaBOOM [a volunteerism effort to build children's playgrounds] ...' it fills up fast. If we mandate it, it loses its effectiveness." The company doesn't feel the need to additionally promote sustainability, and forcing things would push store managers to just "check the box."
There's a strong spirit of volunteerism at the other three companies, too. Where many companies struggle to get employees involved, Nike searches for programs to keep pace with employee activism. Through volunteerism, P&G provides ongoing support, sponsorship, and leadership for many civic, cultural, and nonprofit organizations across all geographies. Nissan volunteers regularly join local cleanup efforts to help communities protect their environment. In fact, Nissan plants need to address cooperation and coexistence with local communities as one of their goals in their yearly plans.
Soft vs. Hard Implementation Systems
The study's finding of the importance of soft or informal systems and processes for successful management of sustainability might come as somewhat surprising. Most of the literature on management control and strategy implementation focuses on hard or formal systems and processes, such as organizational design, performance evaluation, and incentive systems that motivate employee behavior. But these systems alone haven't typically been successful in implementing corporate sustainability strategies. Performance measurement, incentive, and reward systems can be critical tools to implement sustainability and align the interests of the corporation, senior managers, and all employees. Yet they must usually be part of a broader set of systems aimed to motivate and coordinate employee actions and corporate culture.
Formal systems that measure and reward performance and encourage employees to pursue sustainability are often necessary to improve social and environmental impacts, communicate the value of sustainability to the organization, and hold employees accountable for their sustainability efforts. But to be effective they need to be built on principles such as measurability, objectivity, and fairness. Some companies explicitly state that they don't want to measure sustainability impacts directly because they are difficult to capture. Or they don't want to invest the effort to measure social impacts because managers intuitively believe that their sustainability efforts work. Rather, they choose metrics related to outcomes reasonably close to the cause-and-effect relationships chain. For example, measures related to the quantity of emissions are often considered satisfactory without going the next step to examine the various health and other social impacts on the population.
Companies sometimes consider social impacts more difficult to measure than financial results because they're often intangible, hard to quantify, and difficult to attribute to a specific organization, and they have a long time horizon. This difficulty often presents obstacles to producing compelling evidence of impact and mission achievement. Though increased sustainability measures are available and are often a valuable component in sustainability implementation, some leading companies haven't focused on them--or are only now focusing on measures of success. Instead, they've focused on getting the informal systems right first before concentrating on the measurement.
For example, The Home Depot doesn't attempt to directly measure brand, community, or business impact of its sustainability efforts. There's some sense that these things are the right things to do, and, if they're measured, associates might see them as additional job requirements that they must monitor and manage. When The Home Depot evaluates a new initiative with a potential for significant sustainability outcomes, it doesn't attempt to measure specific environmental or social outcomes directly. Instead, it captures relevant outcomes in its assessment of three types of risks: business, customer, and brand. At the moment, Nike doesn't tie incentives directly to sustainability, but the overall intention is to increasingly formalize and institutionalize many of the informal processes.
While these companies have a formal sustainability strategy, structure, and systems in place, it seems that the internal context has a stronger impact on behavior. Corporate social responsibility or sustainability departments play an important role in educating other business units about why the company should engage in sustainability efforts. They do this through educational and other efforts to influence the organizational culture and values. In addition, sustainability departments influence how the company acts to include sustainability in decision making, such as developing tools for incorporating sustainability. Also, as we mentioned earlier, both P&G and The Home Depot emphasize promoting from within, which builds a strong culture.
If they don't use these methods, companies must find other ways to sensitize new employees to the culture. This is often challenging. When employees have a sense of long-term commitment, they're willing to volunteer in the long-term interests of the company. All four of the companies we studied educate and train individuals throughout their organizations to be sensitive to sustainability issues, and they have staff dedicated specifically to sustainability programs.
The sustainability strategy is only a minimum enabler for improved sustainability performance. Best-practice companies will also have other formal and informal systems and processes in place, of which leadership, organizational culture, and people may be among the most important drivers of effective sustainability decision making. CEOs should communicate--and overcommunicate--the importance of sustainability and establish a culture of integrating sustainability into day-to-day management decisions. Commitment to social and environmental concerns must be communicated consistently, both in words and actions. At Nike, one vice president specifically underlined the importance of leadership consistency: "Leaders must be consistent. Consistency is believed to be more important than refined measures on environmental impact and compliance."
A Win-Win Opportunity
An organizational culture supporting sustainability decisions can inspire and motivate employees to take sustainability obligations seriously. In addition, in their recruitment and development practices, companies may seek to create in their employees a passion and commitment to sustainability. This leads to contributions that are good for society, the environment, and the company's bottom line.
Marc J. Epstein, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor of Management at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. He is also a member of IMA. You can reach him at email@example.com.
Kristi Yuthas, Ph.D., is an associate professor of accounting and the Swigert Professor in Information Systems at Portland State University. You can reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Adriana Rejc Buhovac, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. You can reach Adriana at email@example.com.
For more information, see the authors' C-Suite report, Managing Social, Environmental, and Financial Performance Simultaneously: What Can We Learn from Corporate Best Practices? which can be found in the Library at www.linkupima.com.
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