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   "text": "Existing corporate criminal liability combined with the absence of clear Department of Justice standards for charging businesses can push organizations to adopt unproven compliance programs and generate other inefficiencies.",
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   "text": "The McCallum Memorandum failed as a corrective because it only supplemented rather than replaced the Thompson Memorandum and did little if anything to curb the widespread use of attorney client and work product privilege waivers in deferred prosecution agreements.",
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   "text": "The McNulty Memorandum did not resolve the privilege waiver problem because it still left prosecutors ample opportunity to treat a corporate defendant's unwillingness to waive attorney client privilege as bearing on cooperation, and its attorney's fees provision had similar shortcomings.",
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   "text": "The trend in attorney client privilege waivers reversed after 2008: agreements requiring no privilege waiver increased steadily from 2008, and provisions requiring an attorney client privilege waiver disappeared completely by 2009.",
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