Episode Description:

If you were building a £200million factory, you wouldn’t just hire an architect and hope the buildingmanages itself. You would have a Project Manager, a schedule, and a budget.Yet, when companies face a £200 million DOJ investigation, they often hand thekeys entirely to external counsel, and then wonder why costs spiral andtimelines drift.

In this episode, we challenge the "hiddenassumption" that dominates corporate compliance: that if you hire the bestlawyers, the investigation will manage itself.

Drawing on deep field experience, we explore thecritical threshold where an investigation stops being a legal exercise andbecomes a management problem.

We explain why your best lawyers, while essential forlegal judgment, are structurally ill-equipped to manage enterprise execution,cost velocity, and organizational drag.

Tune in to discover:

• The "Capital Project"Paradigm:Why large investigations behave less like court cases and more like majorinfrastructure projects—and why you need to govern them that way.

• The Cost Fallacy: Why focusing on legal fees is a mistake. We explain why"time compression" is the only metric that matters, and how toachieve it.

• Legal Judgment vs. ExecutionGovernance:How to separate these two functions so your lawyers can focus on the law, whileyour business retains control of the timeline.

• Directing vs. Enduring: How to stop your investigation from becoming a"standing condition" that bleeds resources and leadership attentionfor years.

• The Escalation Matrix: Practical steps for deciding exactly when to bring in a project manager so you don’tover-engineer a simple problem or under-manage a crisis.Whether you are a CEOfacing a crisis or a Compliance Officer trying to regain control, this episodeoffers a blueprint for turning a chaotic legal battle into a managed businessobjective.

Stop outsourcing yourgovernance. Start directing your investigation.