Welcome back to the podcast, bribes, windle, or steel.

I'm Alexandra Roggey, and today we're trying something a bit different.

Jeff Clark, partner with Wilkie Far and Gallagher's Washington, D.C. office has just given a presentation on running

a cost-effective internal investigation. Rather than structuring this as an interview,

we've simply recorded his presentation, which is dense with useful information and tips.

So here's Jeff.

We're going to talk about internal investigations today. And the question is how to do a sufficiently thorough internal investigation, but still try to capture efficiencies where you can. And not to jump right to the conclusion, but there is no single answer to that question, as I'm sure you realize. Internal investigations and the issues that give rise to internal

investigations come in all shapes and sizes. And there are a variety of different audiences for

internal investigations. And those are the sorts of things that are going to shape what you need to do.

But there are places within the investigation process that you can capture efficiencies.

And so we're going to try to, as we go through this, focus on those today.

So we'll talk about it in kind of four steps today.

One is pre-investigation planning because that's really an area where you can lock in some efficiencies

or some encouragement of efficiencies,

gathering the facts through documents, a critical part of any investigation, gathering facts

through witness interviews. And then lastly, we'll touch somewhat briefly on reporting,

on remediation, and disclosure.

So there's four parts of any internal investigation, and it's determining what the

allegation is and what you're going to investigate and scoping the investigation properly.

Then it's finding the facts.

It's figuring out how the facts apply to the legal

risks or the legal issues that you're trying to get to the bottom of, and ultimately what to do

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