Welcome to the 10th edition of OIG Shorts. In this post we discuss why it’s important that Chief Legal Officers (and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officers) have meaningful, real-time involvement in the key legal, organizational,...more
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Welcome back to the 9th edition of OIG Shorts, a publication of the Sheppard Mullin Organization Integrity Group (OIG). This post discusses the importance of a targeted, multi-layered compliance program focused at individual...more
Welcome back to the seventh edition of OIG Shorts, a publication of the Sheppard Mullin Organizational Integrity Group. Today’s discussion focuses on the thorny issue of Ethics & Compliance (E&C) program funding.
Arguing...more
In our decades working with complex organizations on their Ethics & Compliance (E&C) programs, my colleagues and I have seen a wide variety of structures. While we readily concede there is no one way to structure an E&C...more
Welcome back to our second installment of OIG Shorts. In this post, we focus on the difference between Checking Boxes and Solving Problems from an Ethics & Compliance (E&C) perspective. We all know what attributes an E&C...more
U.S. companies spend millions on Ethics and Compliance (E&C) programs every year. While the exact cost varies by industry, company size, etc., there is general consensus that the cost of such programs has increased...more
The inattention some companies pay to their ethics and compliance program never ceases to surprise us. You’d think the frequency of DOJ press releases and prosecutions holding companies accountable for employee wrongdoing...more