Deferred Prosecution Agreements with the Department of Justice (DPAs) have been a powerful tool of federal white-collar criminal enforcement for a number of years. At the same time, DPAs have been ...

The debate on whether the use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) has become lively again over the past couple of weeks. Last week, there was a panel ...

Deferred-prosecution agreements (DPAs) pose thorny questions from an overcriminalization perspective. But DPA skeptics should welcome—at least for now—a decision issued last Tuesday by the U.S ...

Critics of DPAs want companies to plead guilty and agree to the same set of conditions as included in the DPA to reform corporate governance. Even the courts are becoming suspect of DPAs.

Deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) were on the cards in the UK for some years before finally being introduced in schedule 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. They have been used in a similar form ...