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Among the drumbeats of rapid pronouncements and policy shifts since January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration recently issued a 180-day pause on new investigations and enforcement actions involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”), and signaled a coming shift in how the statute will be enforced in the future.

For years, email has been the dominant form of business communication. The average office worker sends approximately 9,000 to 15,000 emails per year. Multiply 15,000 emails across multiple personnel and multiple years, and that leads to an enormous amount of email flowing into review for a lawsuit or investigation. And, as we all know, many of those emails are replies and forwards containing repetitive information that appear multiple times in our inboxes. Reviewing each individual email in those email chains or “threads” can be time-consuming and costly. Email threading can help solve this problem.