By Pamela J. Bethel When a company faces the necessary task of conducting a thorough internal investigation into some form of wrongdoing or questionable behavior that has been uncovered in the company’s past, to whom should it turn to handle the investigation? The subject matter of the probe might be an allegation of illegal payments...
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When the Government Calls, Listen — and Call Your Lawyer
By Pamela J. Bethel Corporate Counsel magazine just published a very important article by Scott N. Wagner and Joseph Mamounas of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod in Miami on the steps that in-house counsel should take when he or she receives a call out of the blue from the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking...
Needed: Broad Definition of ‘Whistleblower’ Under Dodd-Frank
By Pamela J. Bethel Jordan A. Thomas, formerly a leading SEC attorney who was involved in developing the agency’s whistleblower program and now chairman of the whistleblower representation practice at Labaton Sucharow, as well as Vanessa De Simone, an associate in the firm’s whistleblower representation practice, recently wrote an important op-ed article in the National...
Athena Construction Group Awarded Contract by Washington Headquarters Services
The firm would like to congratulate Athena Construction Group for being one of five construction companies being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for design-build or design-bid-build general building construction for various locations by Washington Headquarters Services, which is under the Department of Defense. The five companies will have the opportunity to bid on each individual...
Pamela J. Bethel Inducted to Hall of Fame
O’Riordan Bethel is proud to announce that Executive Partner Pamela J. Bethel was inducted to the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame for her achievements in the field of Government/Law. The ceremony was held in Atlanta on September 26. She joins the ranks of such notable inductees as Thurgood Marshall the first African-American Supreme...
US-Columbia Trade Promotion Agreement
The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement entered into force on May 15, 2012. O’Riordan Bethel and Washington Consulting Corporation is ready to help businesses large and small put the Agreement to work to expand and diversify their market reach. WCC has experience in Colombia helping US and multinational clients with Colombian investment and trade opportunities,...
New Opportunities with SFMTA
Washington Consulting Corporation, O’Riordan Bethel and CMH & Associates have teamed to assist clients in capturing and delivering on the more than $600 million in transportation and infrastructure projects scheduled for San Francisco and the Bay Area. We will serve as our client’s business intelligence consultants during the capture management process for these projects, identifying...
Rise in SEC Enforcement Expected to Continue This Year
By Pamela J. Bethel The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Division announced on Nov. 9 that it filed an all-time high 735 actions and collected $2.8 billion in penalties in fiscal year 2011. These included, the SEC said, 15 separate actions involving wrongdoing related to the financial crisis. Seventeen individuals were named in such...