1-12.000 Coordination of Parallel Criminal, Civil, and Administrative Proceedings The Attorney General issued a Memorandum on July 28, 1997, requiring a system for coordinating the criminal, civil and administrative aspects of all white-collar crime matters within every United States Attorney's office and each Department Litigating Division. The system should contain management procedures to address issues of parallel proceedings including: timely assessment of the civil and administrative potential in all criminal case referrals, indictments, and declinations; timely assessment of the criminal potential in all civil case referrals and complaints; effective and timely communication with cognizant agency officials, including suspension and debarment authorities, to enable agencies to pursue available remedies; early and regular communication between civil and criminal attorneys regarding qui tam and other civil referrals, especially when the civil case is developing ahead of the criminal prosecution; and coordination, when appropriate, with state and local authorities. The Attorney General has further directed that appropriate staff in each office receive comprehensive training regarding parallel proceedings utilizing a course of instruction and training materials to be developed by the Council on White-Collar Crime and the Office of Legal Education. The full text of this Memorandum is in the DOJ Organization and Functions Manual at 27. [Updated February 1998] [cited in USAM 4-4.110; 5-11.112]