Letter from the ABA to the SEC advocating a modification to the Commission’s policy as outlined in the 2001 “Seaboard Report”1 to prevent the practice of requiring companies and other organizations to waive their attorney-client and work product protections or to take certain punitive actions against their employees as a condition for receiving cooperation credit during investigations. The letter also provides specific language for the proposed modification.
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