Episode 335 -- The New DOJ Whistleblower Program
Navigating the Labyrinth of Private Equity Investments in Health Care – Diagnosing Health Care
AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law Podcast - Episode 3: Cybersecurity and FCA Compliance: Essential Insights for Tech Leaders
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
#WorkforceWednesday®: New DOJ Whistleblower Program - What Employers Must Know - Employment Law This Week®
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 43 - New Horizons: Impact of Recent Appellate Circuit Rulings on White-Collar Criminal Defense Law
Redlining Isn’t What it Used To Be
Episode 333 -- The Boeing Proposed Plea Agreement
DOJ’s New Self-Disclosure Policy and Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
False Claims Act Insights - Assessing the Fallout from a Thermonuclear FCA Verdict
FCPA Survival Guide - Step 8 - Investing in Compliance
False Claims Act Insights - Eureka! Government Investigators Seek Out Research Misconduct
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 1: Gov. Contracts and Cybersecurity
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: What’s Next for Schedule III Marijuana
Redlining Complications Caused by Implementation of 2020 Census Tracts
FCPA Survival Guide: Step 3 - Extensive Remediation
Episode 324 -- Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
The Justice Insiders Podcast: DOJ’s Cacophony of Whistles
The Latest on Healthcare Enforcement
In the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog this week, I will explore corporate culture from various angles. Since at least October 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has made corporate culture part of its review for any...more
Why should you audit your culture? In doing so, a compliance professional can utilize a comprehensive approach designed to evaluate various aspects of a company’s culture, including ethics, engagement, accountability, and...more
As The Volkov Law Group previously noted in the context of a blog post authored by Michael Volkov, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”)—at the behest of Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco—recently updated the requirements...more
Welcome to a special 5 part blog post series on building a stronger culture of compliance through targeted and effective training, sponsored by Diligent. Over this series I will visit with Kunal Agrawal, Director of Customer...more
As a company’s most valuable intangible asset, we have witnessed the wreckage of companies that have fallen victim to reputational damage, scandal and ultimately the wasteland of a rotten corporate culture. In these...more
Each year, NAVEX releases the Top 10 Trends in Risk and Compliance to provide leaders with guidance and insights on where to focus their initiatives and resources. Staying ahead of global trends in risk and compliance has...more
As 2022 comes to a close, now is an ideal time to reflect on the developments and challenges this year held for the risk and compliance profession – and there was no shortage of either. The complexity of maintaining...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 14 (July 23, 2020) - The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released an update to its guidance document, Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, which is based on...more
As most compliance practitioners know, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, 2019 Guidance, concentrated focus on culture in a way the DOJ has not done previously. This concentrated...more
The MLB Commissioner held senior leadership accountable for illegal sign stealing - even though the conduct generally involved players and low-level operations employees. On January 13, 2020, Major League Baseball (MLB)...more
When the Department of Justice takes aim at a corporation, the effectiveness of the corporation’s compliance program at the time of corporate wrongdoing and afterwards can be key to federal prosecutors’ decision-making. ...more
On April 30, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski unveiled an update to the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs during a speech in Dallas, Texas. In issuing the new document (the...more
On May 2, 2019, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued guidance titled “A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments” (Guidance), providing direction regarding what OFAC considers to...more
Companies must now address three questions proactively. On April 30, 2019, the DOJ’s Criminal Division issued updated guidance on how it will evaluate corporate compliance programs in its charging decisions going forward....more
In compliance you often times need to be a superior utility player who is good at every job. There are multiple lessons. First and foremost is the problem of siloing in corporate America. This concern of siloing even...more
Since at least the market crisis there has been a clamor to convict senior corporate officials of federal felonies – or at least name them in a civil law enforcement action by the SEC or another agency. For years the...more
Giving away my old age, we all loved the 1960s Batman series starring Adam West. Thanks to the Batman show we were given a long list of words to underscore Batman and Robin’s slugfests with the weekly villain (e.g. Penguin,...more
For most organizations, the risk of violating antitrust laws is real. But when it comes to the most serious of antitrust violations, such as cartels and significant price fixing schemes, there is often an “it won’t happen...more