Roderick L. Thomas

Labor & Employment

Roderick L. Thomas, Erin K. Nord, Dylan Hix | Wiley Rein LLP

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is warning employers against using criminal records to screen employment candidates in ways that disfavor candidates with protected statuses. See Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions under Title VII of the Civil...

Anti-Corruption

Roderick L. Thomas, Mark B. Sweet | Wiley Rein LLP

Part I of this article appeared in the March, 2012 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and can be found here. Learning that your company is the subject – or worse, the target – of a government investigation can be an alarming and momentous event. Government...

Anti-Corruption

Roderick L. Thomas, Mark B. Sweet | Wiley Rein LLP

Part II of this article appeared in the March, 2012 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and can be found here. Government investigations can have profound effects on a company. The mere initiation of an investigation can disrupt operations, discourage morale, and, in some cases,...

Roderick L. Thomas, Mark B. Sweet, Erin K. Nord | Wiley Rein LLP

Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court substantially limited the breadth of a statute that prosecutors had been using aggressively to criminalize corporate executives' and public officials' failure to disclose personal gains from corporate or government business. In a series of cases decided...