In this podcast, David Shapiro, of counsel with Pepper Hamilton, discusses the impact of the July 16, 2007 dismissal of 13 former KPMG employees who were defendants in a government initiated fraud case pending in the Southern District of New York.

The court’s opinion marks another attack in a string of criticisms waged against standard DOJ charging policies that has led to significant reforms. David discusses whether the target company should pay the legal expenses of its former employees, whether the company should waive its protection over privileged communications and work product documents and turn over the materials to the government and the long term implications of the Stein decision.

For more information on this topic, you can receive an electronic copy of David’s presentation from a recent national conference entitled, “Protecting Privileged Materials and Considerations for Waiving Privilege for Internal Investigations.”