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Brand Protection: How Businesses Can Identify and Stop Intellectual Property Theft

Adam Shipley was furious. He spent years building up his company’s brand of elite fishing gear, and now someone was selling counterfeits — even using lookalike packaging — through a half-dozen online marketplaces. At half price! The copycats were cheap knockoffs that broke easily. Shipley knew that because hundreds of hoodwinked customers were deluging his…

Dell Spry Promoted to Vice President Emeritus

Dell Spry being promoted to Vice President Emeritus

Dell Spry is an attorney by education a investigator by passion. He has been in law enforcement for over 30 years. In that time he served in the FBI as a Supervisory Special Agent and was lead investigator on some of the most high-profile cases in the country, including the infamous Aldrich AmesCIA Spy case.Through…

How to Respond to a Whistleblower’s Report

In theory, it should be a good thing when employees come forward with a whistleblower report. They’ve spotted a threat to your organization and are giving you the insight you need to address the problem before it becomes even more serious. Unfortunately, even in the best-case scenario, whistleblower complaints can still be stressful for employees,…

The First Steps for Conducting Internal Investigations

Human Resources team conducting internal investigations with current employees

Written by: James Hart When the call finally came, Raquel Henderson lunged for the phone on her desk. Henderson was less than three months into her job as the HR director for a midsize family business in a rural part of the state. The company was the community’s largest employer and a point of pride…