Responding to Government Investigations and Enforcement Challenges
Emergency Envelope is the newsletter of Robins Kaplan's Government & Internal Investigations team, offering practical insights on government investigations, compliance, fraud and misconduct allegations, potential recovery opportunities, and emerging legal risks. Drawing on the experience of the firm's former Department of Justice attorneys, it provides timely guidance to help organizations navigate high-stakes investigations and regulatory challenges with confidence.
Introducing Emergency Envelope
Clients rarely call when everything is going according to plan.
They call when a subpoena arrives. When a whistleblower complaint surfaces. When regulators ask questions. When a board needs answers. When a business issue suddenly becomes an enforcement issue.
Throughout our careers in government and private practice, we have seen organizations face these moments repeatedly. The facts vary, but the challenges are often the same: preserving evidence, understanding risk, making disclosure decisions, conducting investigations, and demonstrating meaningful remediation.
That is the idea behind Emergency Envelope.
This publication will provide practical observations on government investigations, enforcement trends, internal investigations, compliance issues, and emerging risks affecting businesses and their leaders. Our goal is not to provide theoretical commentary. It is to share insights that help decision-makers respond effectively when the stakes are high.
As part of this launch, we are also pleased to introduce several former Department of Justice attorneys who recently joined Robins Kaplan. Together, they bring experience spanning federal investigations, False Claims Act matters, healthcare fraud, antitrust enforcement, complex trials, public corruption investigations, technology-related crimes, and civil rights enforcement.
Our first issue examines the Department of Justice's evolving corporate enforcement framework and what it means for companies evaluating self-disclosure, cooperation, remediation, and potential criminal exposure.
We hope you find Emergency Envelope useful, and we look forward to sharing future issues with you.
In this issue:
- Three Envelopes for the Current Enforcement Environment
- The New Playbook: How DOJ Decides Whether to Prosecute a Corporation
Volume 1, No. 1 | July 2026
