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San Francisco – May 29, 2025: Stacey Geis, former deputy assistant administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Crowell & Moring’s Environment, Energy and Natural Resources and White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement groups as senior counsel in its San Francisco office. Geis brings over 25 years of experience, at the federal and state levels, in environmental law and policy, litigation, and criminal and civil enforcement. 

Washington – May 21, 2025: Crowell & Moring has launched “Crisis Handbook: A Desktop Investigations Guide,” an updated, in-depth resource designed to help companies respond effectively and strategically in the face of a corporate crisis.

Los Angeles – May 5, 2025: Crowell & Moring partners Agustin D. Orozco and Jennie Wang VonCannon have been named to the LA Times Studios’ 2025 list of Legal Visionaries. The list spotlights the “best and brightest in a large and highly competitive world of Southern California professionals” who demonstrate outstanding commitment to their practice, their firm, and the community.

This program will focus on managing the discovery of text and chat messages sent via personal and third-party messaging platforms, including the growing use of ephemeral messaging tools. We will discuss key considerations in preserving and discovering such data for litigation and investigations, including recent regulatory and caselaw updates, risks and challenges in overseeing such inquiries, and best practices for discovery, corporate compliance and planning. Given the DOJ, SEC and other agencies’ heightened scrutiny on message retention and control, the implications on cooperation credit and the increased risk of sanctions, this program will help legal and compliance professionals understand how to defensibly and efficiently manage these communications and inquiry responses.

Caroline Brown is set to lead the keynote fireside discussion at the highly regarded 14th Annual New York Forum on Economic Sanctions hosted by ACI.

Join Agustin Orozco alongside Gregory Becker from the Office of the Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services, and Donald Yoo, Chief Compliance Officer at UCLA Health, for an insightful session on best practices for engaging with healthcare enforcement regulators. This presentation will cover essential strategies for responding to government inquiries and investigations, and offer guidance on proactively reporting regulatory concerns.

The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), various federal agencies, and Congress are all actively investigating recipients of federal funding for alleged waste, fraud and abuse—with a keen focus on recipients of hundreds of billions of dollars in grants, loans, and other funding through the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Our experienced panel will discuss the potential legal and political exposure arising from those investigations, and how to mitigate that risk by establishing best practices for responding to agency and congressional investigations.

Join our expert panel from Crowell's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement, Investigations, and Labor and Employment teams as they provide a comprehensive overview of what these policies mean for companies and practical steps they can take to ensure they are in alignment.

Join Jennie VonCannon alongside fellow panelists Dipo Akin-Deko, Head of Legal at Bower Group Asia, Inc., and Koutayba Yamak, Partner at PwC, for an AI webinar hosted by Trace International as they share their insights into all things AI and data analytics.

Although data analytics and AI have been popular topics in recent years, interest in AI further surged following the release of ChatGPT in December 2022 and is revolutionizing the way that work gets done. Our panelists will discuss the risks and benefits of AI and data analytics, as well as providing practical guidance for how to justify the cost and value-adds to a company’s leadership, how to continually evolve with new changes, and how to analyze and use data. The panelists will also demonstrate how data analytics and AI can be used to identify and respond to corruption.