Attention, compliance officers: In case you missed it, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division last year quietly updated language contained in its corporate and individual model plea agreements as they apply to cooperation. In remarks made at the Global Competition Review’s Antitrust Law Leaders Forum this month, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Powers provided more color around those changes.

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