All companies should be prepared for the eventuality that the government is going to call or a serious whistleblower allegation is going to come in, Kristin Rivera, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers said while chairing a panel on government investigations at the 2014 Women, Influence and Power in the Law Conference.  Rivera and the other panelists, Mythili Raman, a partner at Covington & Burling and former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Criminal Division, Brenda Morris, Deputy General Counsel at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Jessica Hopper, Vice President, Regional Enforcement at FINRA, provided specific strategies for making sure a company is ready for an investigation, and handling every stage of a government investigation thereafter.  See also “How to Conduct an Anti-Corruption Investigation: Ten Factors to Consider at the Outset (Part One of Two)” (Dec. 18, 2013); “Developing and Implementing the Investigation Plan (Part Two of Two)”(Jan. 8, 2014).