Carolyn H. Kendall

Carolyn H. Kendall is an Associate in the Firm's Internal Investigations & White Collar Defense and Health Care Practice Groups. She conducts internal investigations and defends corporations, officers, and other individuals facing criminal and civil investigation. 

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• Panelist, "When the Government Looks But Your Client Can’t See," Federal Bar Association, Federal Criminal Law Committee, Philadelphia, PA (February 28, 2020)
• Presenter, "Report of the Monetary Violations Subcommittee to the Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee," ABA Tax Section, Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2016)
• Presenter, "Developments in Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance," PA Bankers' Association, Harrisburg, PA (May 3, 2016) 
• Panelist, Post & Schell's 2016 Employment Tax Forum, Philadelphia, PA (February 25, 2016)

• Author, "Corporate Criminal Liability in the COVID-19 Era," Business Crimes Bulletin (June 2020)
• Co-Author, "The Yates Memo Is Here to Stay: Signs of Increasing Efforts to Hold Individuals Criminally Liable for Corporate Wrongdoing," Business Crimes Bulletin (June 2019)
• Author, "Anything You Say May be Recorded: Protecting Conversations under the PA Wiretap Act," For The Defense, an official publication of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL) (May 2019)
• Co-Author, "When Government Knowledge Of Industry Practice Bars FCA Claims," Law360 (January 3, 2018)
• Co-Author, "The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs," Business Crimes Bulletin (July 2017)
• Co-Author, "SCOTUS Raises the Bar on Materiality in False Claims Act Lawsuits," Temple 10-Q (August 18, 2016)
• Co-Author, "How Escobar Reframes FCA's Materiality Standard," Law360 (July 7, 2016)
• Co-Author, "Will Volkswagen Executives Be the Yates Memo’s First Casualties?," Bloomberg BNA's Daily Environmental Report (January 4, 2016)
• Co-Author, "SEC ALJs: An Enforcement Fast-Track is Hitting the Constitutional Skids," White Collar Crime Prof Blog (August 13, 2015)
• Co-Author, "What If the SEC’s Administrative Law Judges Have Been Unconstitutionally Appointed?," The Temple 10-Q (July 15, 2015)
• Co-Author, "Best Practices for Mobile Device Data Security," The Legal Intelligencer, Cybersecurity Supplement (June 23, 2015)
• Co-Author, "The Appointment of SEC Administrative Law Judges:Constitutional Questions and Consequences for Enforcement Actions," Bloomberg BNA's Securities Regulation & Law Report (June 19, 2015)
• Co-Author, "Changes Coming to Anti-Money Laundering Compliance in New York," The Temple 10-Q (April 28, 2015)
• Co-Author, "Domestic Search Warrants for Emails Stored Abroad: The Government Seeks to Expand its Ability to Collect Foreign Evidence," Federal Tax Crimes (April 25, 2015)
• Co-Author, "Between the National Taxpayer Advocate and the Courts:Steering a Middle Course to Define “Willfulness” in Civil Offshore Account Enforcement Cases, Part 2," Procedurally Taxing (March 24, 2015)
• Co-Author, "Between the National Taxpayer Advocate and the Courts: Steering a Middle Course to Define “Willfulness” in Civil Offshore Account Enforcement Cases, Part 1," Procedurally Taxing (March 23, 2015)
• Co-Author, "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Pursues New Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Banks’ Anti-Money Laundering Programs," PA Banker Magazine (December 2014)
• Co-Author, 2014 Cumulative Supplement to Criminal Tax, Money Laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act Litigation 

• Counseled individual client in connection with a government enforcement action related to RICO and alleged tribal payday lending predicate offense. 
• Investment firm under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for inter-fund loans involving alleged conflicts of interest, and related constitutional litigation regarding the ability of the SEC to pursue administrative enforcement actions. Result: Settlement involving a suspension but no industry bar.
• Conducted internal investigation for non-profit hospital system regarding potential excess benefit transactions and possible private benefit and private inurement in connection with physician compensation.
• Conducted internal investigation for major financial institution regarding possible federal tax fraud involving offshore entity and related-party transactions.