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Building a Better Board Report: Essential Strategies for Chief Compliance Officers

Need to better engage your board—and get buy-in for E&C program investments? Fully leveraging your board reporting opportunity is essential. As compliance professionals, most of us are very proud of the accomplishments…more

3/2/2015 | Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts

OECD Slams France for Lacklustre Bribery & Corruption Enforcement

International pressure is mounting for France to boost their anti-bribery and corruption efforts, but French organisations face the most serious risks—and have the greatest need for strong compliance programmes—today…more

2/27/2015 | Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade

Building a Culture-Changing E&C Program: Six Essentials

Compliance programs are effective only to the degree that they help build and support a strong organizational culture. So what does a strong corporate culture look like? And what ethics and compliance tools can help support it?…more

2/19/2015 | Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

Making the Case for Compliance Training for Third Parties

How to make the case for implementing third party compliance training in your organization. A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle profiled Jay Jorgensen, the new Global Chief of Compliance at Walmart. The…more

2/17/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

How Do I Know If My Policy Management System Is Working?

If you’re like many compliance professionals, you know it can be a struggle to evaluate the performance of your policy management system—and to truly understand whether your approach is effective and efficient…more

2/10/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts

New Year, New Focus on Enforcement: The U.K. Strengthens Anti-Bribery and Corruption Enforcement

U.K. regulators have started 2015 with a bang, promising increased cooperation among regulatory agencies, and tougher enforcement of financial crimes, with an emphasis on anti-bribery and corruption efforts…more

2/6/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law

Six Lessons on Building Corporate Culture From Warren Buffett’s Memo To Managers

For more than half a century, billionaire Warren Buffett has proved he knows a thing or two about how to run a company. Buffett recently released his bi-annual memo to his top managers (he calls them his “All Stars”). …more

2/4/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

2015 Trends: #10 Cybersecurity: A Risk that Needs to be on Your Ethics and Compliance To-Do List

The starting point for every ethics and compliance program must always be an analysis of the ethics and compliance risks faced by the organization. In that light, it’s important to listen to James Comey, Director, U.S…more

1/30/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology

2015 Trends: #9 Technology-enabled ethics and compliance is ready for takeoff

By every indication we are about to witness a dramatic leap in technology-enabled ethics and compliance. Tech Advancement in Key E&C Areas - Trends and our own client experiences are demonstrating that we are…more

1/28/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Science, Computers, & Technology

2015 Trends: #8 Top Whistleblowing Priorities for Compliance Professionals

Last November, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued its Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program. It is clear that the program is going strong. Following are five key ways compliance…more

1/23/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law

New Workplace Harassment Training Challenges (And How to Tackle Them)

Workplace harassment is a decades-old problem that, frustratingly, takes on new forms and new life each year. Harassment and discrimination (including gender, age, disability, religion and racial workplace discrimination)…more

1/22/2015 | Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law

2015 Trends: #7 Crime and Punishment

On the accountability and punishment front, three trends bear watching: 1) Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) DPAs and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) allow prosecutors to require corporate reforms and…more

1/21/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade

Ethics in Pharmaceutical Sales: Strengthening Corporate Culture and Preventing False Claims Act Violations

“I didn’t set out to commit a crime. I certainly didn’t set out to hurt anyone… I was kind of a hero, because I helped the company make its numbers every quarter. And I thought I was doing a good thing. I thought I was smart.”…more

1/20/2015 | Criminal Law, Finance & Banking, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology, Government Contracting

2015 Trends: #6 Gender Diversity—Are Quotas the Answer?

In last year’s annual trends report, we suggested that perhaps a corner had been turned on perceptions about gender and corporate leadership. After all, we’d seen plenty of stories about newsmakers including Janet Yellin at the…more

1/16/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts

2015 Trends: #5 Regulatory Enforcement Moves Down Market

While ethics and compliance scandals that implicate brand name companies tend to grab the headlines, smaller organizations have always borne the brunt of regulatory enforcement. Over the years, U.S. Sentencing Commission data…more

1/15/2015 | Commercial Law & Contracts