Companies are working harder to please their regulators, according to a recent poll of chief litigation officers. About 35 percent of those polled said they have already shared privileged internal investigation documents with regulators, while another 50 percent said they would consider it.

Only 14 percent of respondents said they have a negative relationship with their regulators, according to the annual corporate litigation survey by the Consero Group. Consero puts on conferences for senior executives and conducted this survey at its corporate litigation forum in October.