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Any effective climate strategy will have to rely upon a combination of emissions reductions, adaptation, and, if circumstances warrant, some degree of geoengineering.

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It appears that our interests were ill-served by the abandonment of Iraq by Barack Obama.

Last week, the Administration released its eagerly awaited report on reforming the housing finance market. The Dodd-Frank Act had omitted consideration of the government sponsored enterprises (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) because they were perceived to be sufficiently important to warrant separate consideration.

Libya's interim government made a correct, startlingly independent judgment just before Thanksgiving, announcing that Libya, not the International Criminal Court (ICC), would try Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, Moammar Qaddafi's favorite son and once-likely successor.

This Briefly has been updated to reflect new case law, the recently announced changes in the Department of Justice's Charging Guidelines in Corporate Fraud Prosecutions, and the implications of newly revised Rule of Civil Procedure 37(f) on e-discovery.

This Briefly provides a checklist of issues that general counsel and others inside a corporation should consider in the initial hours and days after learning of a government investigation.