Overview
Carlton Fields defends businesses, senior executives, public officials, and other individuals in a wide range of investigations and prosecutions, and facilitates internal investigations for clients as part of risk management, drawing on extensive experience rooting out fraud and abuse and helping design programs to prevent and detect it. We launch investigations quickly when a client faces whistleblower allegations, shareholder demands, external audits, government subpoenas, or inquiries from regulators or civil litigants.
We help clients gain insight into problematic practices and implement corrective action, develop an appropriate response to regulators or prosecutors, assess the potential benefit of self-disclosure, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of an organization's current controls, and respond to whistleblower claims and grand jury subpoenas. In responding to grand jury subpoenas, we work with businesses and executives not only to respond but to learn about the investigation and open a dialogue with investigating and prosecuting authorities, reviewing documents and interviewing witnesses proactively to determine whether there is merit to the allegations.
We draw on the expertise of several members with government experience as former U.S. federal prosecutors and state prosecutors, along with former SEC, FINRA, and DOJ attorneys, including several former high-level SEC enforcement trial attorneys, giving us firsthand knowledge of how government agencies conduct investigations. Because many matters involve simultaneous civil, criminal, and regulatory exposure arising from the same events, we work with colleagues across labor and employment, tax, health care, and other practices on investigations involving anti-money laundering, antitrust, bank and wire fraud, computer and intellectual property crimes, health care fraud, and the False Claims Act.
