I was impressed with the video-making talents of WilmerHale’s Jonathan Shapiro (who took an article he had written on SEC enforcement in the private equity area and turned it into a slick video interview) so you know I’m pretty blown away by the work I just came across by Duncan Wiggetts, a partner at law firm Dechert LLP. As discussed in an article today in the WSJ by Reed Albergotti, Wiggetts has produced three successful films, with a fourth coming out shortly, that are undoubtedly “the most professional, star-studded examples of an underappreciated genre: The corporate training video.”
Wiggetts’ latest project is a half-hour long film that cost over $100,000 to make and stars actor Nigel Whitmey of the movie “Saving Private Ryan.” The film, entitled, “A Price Worth Paying?” tells the story of a company “that bets its future on a fast-talking, risk-taking chief executive” and raises key corporate governance issues. Wiggetts’ prior films include “The Crisis,” about a company whose chief financial officer defrauds the company; “Risking It All,” which is the story of a company facing allegations of bribery whose outside auditors failed to properly investigate; and “Counting the Loss,” which shows how a company’s board, audit committee and key gatekeepers “react to issues raised over a two-year financial reporting period, and the consequences for the company and for them personally flowing from their actions.”
