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Getting Ahead of the Changing Legal Landscape Around Marijuana Use: Avoiding Nine Common Policy Mistakes

Once a policy that typically needed little attention or updating, the legalization of marijuana — even for the limited purpose of medical use — is throwing companies’ drug & alcohol use policies into the spotlight. …more

4/21/2014 | Conflict of Laws, Labor & Employment Law

Efficient, Nimble, Defensible: More Benefits of Using Short Form Compliance Training

In our first post on burst learning, we covered five key benefits of using burst learning, an approach to ethics and compliance training that utilizes engaging five-to seven-minute products to accomplish any number of an…more

4/18/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts

Memorable, Affordable, Powerful: The Benefits of Using Short Form Compliance Training

Sometimes, short is not only sweet—it’s powerful. Burst learning is an approach to ethics and compliance training that utilizes engaging five-to seven-minute videos to accomplish any number of an organization’s training…more

4/14/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts

Senator Delivers Poor Grades to Executive Departments on Whistleblower Protections

A memorandum released yesterday by Senator Charles E. Grassley highlights allegations that 14 of the 15 executive branch departments are in violation of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA)…more

4/4/2014 | Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

2014 Hotline Benchmarking Toolkit eBook.

In This Presentation: • What’s Happening With Call Volume? • The Repeat Reporter Story • Allegation Categories Remarkably Consistent • The Decline of the Anonymous Reporter? • Substantiation Rate Gets…more

3/28/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts

Growing Challenge: Managing Third Parties within the Banking Industry

The challenge of managing third party relationships has expanded within the banking industry. In guidance issued last year by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the scope of such relations has grown to include…more

3/24/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking

NAVEX Global 2014 Hotline Benchmarking Report Webinar: Top Takeaways & Questions

Last week, Carrie Penman and I hosted the “Benchmarking Your Hotline: How Does Your Data Measure Up Against NAVEX Global’s 2014 Benchmarks?” webinar where we discussed top-level findings from NAVEX Global’s 2014 Hotline…more

3/20/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

Interviewing in the Context of Workplace Investigations

As an ethics and compliance professional and investigator, I have been intrigued by the recent media coverage of wrongful convictions. Also, the stories reminded me of a fascinating article in the New Yorker magazine a few…more

3/17/2014 | Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law

Retaliation Exposure Tipping Point? Supreme Court Extends SOX Whistleblower Protections to Private Company Employees

The Supreme Court in Lawson vs FMR, LLC (delivered March 4, 2014 after a 6-3 vote) has ruled that employees of private companies engaged by public companies are covered by the whistleblower protections of Sarbanes Oxley Act of…more

3/10/2014 | Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Business Torts, Securities Law

Exhibit A: The Perils of Outdated Policies

Well structured, updated policies can be a first line of defense against employment related litigation and regulatory investigations. However, an organization’s policies can quickly turn from defensive tactic to litigation aid…more

3/7/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, International Law & Trade

Key Trends, Issues and Best Practices in Compliance

Last year, we realized that, in spite of all the research that reputable organizations publish about compliance and the practice of compliance, there was some key information about the current state of our industry and key…more

3/3/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts

Compliance Communicator - February 2014

MEMO TO MANAGERS - Making the Most of Our Code of Conduct - As you know, the company has a number of ethics and compliance resources in place to ensure that everyone understands our expectations and standards…more

2/25/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts

JSYK - Wow Best Training Ever! - CUL8R

Last week, the Wall Street Journal featured an article on companies that are enlisting employees who are identified as “influencers” – “employees who are particularly well-connected and trusted by their peers” – to help “come…more

2/24/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

You Collect Conflict of Interest Disclosures – Then What?

It has become industry best practice to collect conflict of interest disclosures. Usually, organizational codes of conduct require all employees to disclose any potential conflicts of interest (COIs) they may have with their…more

2/21/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

Reading between the Headlines: A Lesson in Risk Mitigation from Edward Snowden

Whistleblowing has become a highly charged term, stirring up emotive rhetoric ranging from “ethical hero” to “treasonous traitor” with very little substantive evaluation of the real impact on the corporation and the broader…more

2/17/2014 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law