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When Lawyers Cross the Line – Breaking Bad Under the Law

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While reading the Embraer settlement documents, I read over the facts implicating a senior legal executive and his/her involvement in the Embraer bribery scheme. Truthfully, I had a slight gasp as I read about a fellow lawyer...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Hallmark 7-Third-Party Due Diligence and Payments

There are five steps in the life cycle of third party management. - Business Justification and Business Sponsor; - Questionnaire to Third Party; - Due Diligence on Third Party; - Compliance...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Data Analytics Week – Part IV: Third Parties and Duplicate Invoices

I continue my exploration of the use of data analytics in a best practices compliance program. Today we look at how data analytics can be used to help detect or prevent bribery and corruption where the primary sales force...more

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Due Diligence and Risk Priorities (Part III of IV)

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Believe it or not, life principles can be used in compliance, especially in due diligence. I always tell my kids that life has a way of setting priorities. As you get older, life becomes simpler and your priorities become...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 157-Training of Third Parties Under the FCPA

In this episode I discuss the training of third parties under the FCPA. I review the DOJ/SEC FCPA Guidance on this issue; the risk ranking of third parties to help deliver your training; the types of training you can utilize...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Why Tone at the Top Matters and Join the FCPA Professor in Houston

Over this week I have looked at some issues related to compensation and methods from other disciplines that a compliance practitioner might use to test and then improve a company’s third party management regime. Today, I want...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 91, Internal Controls for Third Parties Under the FCPA, Part II

In this episode, I continue my exploration of internal controls around third parties in a FCPA compliance program, with Henry Mixon. ...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Internal Controls for Third Party Representatives in a FCPA Compliance Program

This week, I am continuing my podcast series, on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report, on internal controls in best practices anti-corruption compliance program, under the Foreign Corrupt Practices (FCPA), UK Bribery Act or...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Thinking Through Risk Rankings of Third Parties

One question often posed to me is how to think through some of the relationships a company has with its various third parties in order to reasonably risk rank them. Initially I would break this down into sales and supply...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Termination of a Third Party or Breaking Up Should Not Be Hard To Do

One of treats each month for the compliance professional is reading the GRC Illustrated column by Carole Switzer, President of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG), in the Compliance Week magazine. Not only does...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Mann Gulch Fire and How Far Down the Chain Do You Need to Go?

Robert Sallee died last week. A smoke jumper, he was the last survivor of the Mann Gulch Fire, one of the worst disasters in the history of the US Forest Service. Sallee’s story and that of the Mann Gulch Fire was detailed in...more

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