#regulatory-investigations

#regulatory-investigations

When Tara Trantham talks about the cost of delay, she is not speaking in hypotheticals. As the chief legal officer of a billion-dollar publicly traded company, she faced simultaneous investigations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Justice. Without the benefit of legal technology or streamlined processes, she and her team had to manually pull five years of legal complaints into spreadsheets for multiple agencies.

The government highlighted a significant increase in criminal investigations into water companies for environmental breaches, responding to public outcry over pollution levels.