Robert J. Ridge

Presentations

• Presenter, “Uncovering and Proving Financial Fraud,” PBI, January 2014.
• Presenter, “When a Civil Case Turns Into a Government Investigation,” TRA seminar, November 2011.
• Presenter, “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” Western Pennsylvania Association of Corporate Counsel Seminar, September 2011.
• Panelist, “The Game Has Changed Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) – How Will the Heightened Enforcement Affect You?” Marsh’s Academy of Risk, October 2010.
• Panelist, “Litigating in Bankruptcy Court – Tips, Skills and Demonstrations,” PBI 15th Annual Bankruptcy Institute, September 2010.
• Speaker, “Federal Enforcement Actions Against Gatekeepers: Recent Trends in DOJ and SEC Actions Against In-House Counsel,” Delaware Valley Association for Corporate Counsel (DELVACCA) seminar, August 2010.
• Speaker, “A Survey of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” PBI seminars in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, June 2009.
• Speaker, “Corporate Ethics/Fraud Compliance,” Association for Corporate Growth (ACG Pittsburgh) meeting, May 2009.
• Speaker, “Anti–Corruption and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” Legal Counsel Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, December, 2008.
• Panelist, “The Subprime Mortgage Meltdown,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute Course presented to the Business Lawyers’ Institute in Philadelphia, November 2008.
• Moderator and Course Planner, “Making Sense of the Subprime Mortgage Mess,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute course presented in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. July 2008.
• “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” presented to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, December 2, 2007.
• Moderator, ABA Criminal Justice Section “Subpoenaing Sources: Lessons from the Libby Case,” held October 18, 2007, New York, NY.
• Presenter, University of Dayton School of Law Project for Law and Business Ethics Symposium entitled “Unearthing Corporate Wrongdoing: Detecting and Dealing with Ethical Breaches in the Business World,” October 25, 2007, Dayton, Ohio.
• Presenter, NBI Course,“Winning Your First Civil Trial”, held April 26, 2007, Pittsburgh, PA.
• “Internal Investigations,” Presented to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, January 2005.
• Faculty for the NBI course “Succeeding in Federal Court: What You Need to Know about Rules and Procedures,” December 2004.

Publications

• “The Congressional and Executive Response to the Ukrainian Crisis and the Growing U.S. Impatience with Official Corruption,” E-Alert, March 2014.
• “Revisiting the Subprime Meltdown: A Report from the ‘Tranches’,” Communiqué, August 2011.
• Robert J. Ridge, Tips From the Courtroom: A Trial Lawyer’s Suggestions for Building a Successful Compliance Plan, Inside the Mind Series by Aspatore Books, July 2009.
• Robert J. Ridge and Ms. Mackenzie A. Baird: “The Pendulum Swings Back: Revisiting Corporate Criminality and the Rise of Deferred Prosecution Agreements” – Volume 33, University of Dayton Law Review 187 (2008).
• “Identifying the Categories of Disputes Emerging From the Subprime Meltdown,” The Subprime Crisis: A Thomson West Special Report, March 2008.
• “Judge Upholds Rights for Targets of Parallel Civil and Criminal Prosecutions,” Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder, August 10, 2007.
• “Protection Against the Devil Within: Managing the Risk of Financial Frauds in the Construction Industry,” Construction Law News, October 2005.
• “Financial Institutions Alert” re Fairbanks Capital.
• “Clinton, Pinochet and the Rule of Law,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 13, 1999.
• “If Feds Come Calling, Plan Ahead to Protect Your Company’s Rights,” Pittsburgh Business Times, October 30, 1995 (co-author: Mead)­.
• “Feds Clamp Down on Fraud in the Health Care Industry,” Pittsburgh Business Times, June 12, 1993­.
• “Corporations and Criminal Law,” Dynamic Business, December 1991.
• “Forewarned is Forearmed – Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Counsel and the Department of Justice,” Communiqué, April 2008.
• “Are U.S. Companies and Executives Safe When the Public Is Not? A Look at FDA Enforcement in the International Arena,” Communiqué, April 2008.
• “Understanding Recent Developments in the Subprime Lending Market”, Communiqué, March 2007 (co-author: Rushak).
• “Recent Developments in Employee Indemnification: One Federal Court’s Attempt to Restore Balance to the Federal Criminal Justice System,” Communiqué, July 2006.
• “Responding to GIC Investigations,”Communiqué, February 2005.
• Robert J. Ridge and Ms. Ellen G. McGlone: “A Practitioner’s Guide to Pennsylvania’s Newly Adopted Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act” – Volume 99, Dickinson Law Review (Fall 1994).