Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 2, Oversight
Daily Compliance News: July 11, 2025, The What is a COI Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
Compliance Tip of the Day – COSO Objective 1 – Control Environment
Sunday Book Review: June 15, 2025. The Books on Corporate Governance Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Board Oversight on Internal Controls
Great Women in Compliance: Board Bond - Why Ethics & Compliance Professionals Should Be on Boards and How to Get on One
Tariffs and Trade Series: What Boards of Directors Need to Know
Third-Party Risk The competitive world of banking struggles to keep up with technological advances, particularly in a regulatory environment.
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 4: Don't Be Evil: In the Hot Seat of Data Privacy, Part 1
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Director Duties and Best Practices for the Typical Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Designators, Members, Directors, Officers - The Who’s Who of Nonprofit Governance
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Market Leaders Podcast Episode 94: Exploring the Perils of Optics-Driven DEI Initiatives with Guest Mira Dewji
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 16: The Political and Legal Maze of ESG in the U.S. and Abroad
Episode 322 -- Checking in on Caremark Cases
Compliance into the Weeds: What Are Boards Doing About AI (Hint: Not Much)
Conflictos de interés en Colombia, nueva regulación
The Informed Board Podcast | CEO Succession Planning on a Clear Day
This essay traces the origin and development of the first dedicated law school course on corporate compliance and ethics programs in the United States. Responding to legal and practice developments over the last two decades,...more
The 2022 Monaco Memo emphasized the basic point that the key to every company is culture. The bottom line is that corporate culture matters and corporate culture that fails to hold individuals accountable, or fails to invest...more
We are the end of my multi-part exploration of the Herbalife Nutrition Ltd (Herbalife) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission...more
A piece by Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog had some very stark language. He quoted from the Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson) 6-K filing for the following, “While the Company had a compliance program and a supporting...more
I have long been interested in business leadership. I approached a good friend Richard Lummis to ask if he would host me in such a series. Out of this came 12 O’Clock High, a Podcast on Business Leadership....more
The United States Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and non-U.S. governments and agencies have recently emphasized their continued commitments to pursuing both corporate and individual...more
The decision to bring a lawsuit on behalf of a corporation is entrusted to the corporation’s board of directors. A shareholder may not maintain a derivative lawsuit on behalf of a corporation without first making a demand on...more
I am beginning to feel this week’s theme becoming all-encompassing. As hard as I might try, it looks like it will be the Houston Astros second World Series appearance. During the first one back in 2005, I was in the corporate...more
In a shareholder derivative action, to survive a motion to dismiss for failure to plead facts showing demand futility, a derivative plaintiff must plead particularized facts showing either actual involvement by a majority of...more
Many companies have an investigation protocol in place when a potential Foreign Corruption Practices Act (FCPA) or other legal issue arises? However, many Boards of Directors do not have the same rigor when it comes to an...more
This week, Jay and I have a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance related stories. We discuss: 1. Brazilian meatpacker JBS agrees to the largest fine ever for fine for bribery and corruption, $3.2bn...more
Today we honor one of the most iconic moments of World War II (WWII) and one of the most famous photographs of all time, that of the Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. Marine...more
In an unusual FCPA enforcement action, the Justice Department and the SEC resolved FCPA violations against Sociedad Quimica y Minera, a Chilean chemical and mining company, for a total of $30.5 million, for paying...more
Welcome to my second installment in this month’s classic monster movie festival. This year I am revisiting the Frankenstein series and today I want to explore and, indeed, honor the second in the series but what many viewers...more
Compliance professionals are familiar with the phrase “tone at the top,” but what exactly does it mean? Unlike other compliance program components, it cannot be easily formalized and implemented in a policy or procedure....more
In the wreckage of a corporate FCPA enforcement action, a company has to answer two important questions. First, how did the conduct occur without senior executives and the Board learning or suspecting that such conduct...more
I did not think it would be possible that another Houston professional sports team could under-perform the sad-sack Houston Astros in 2013, who ended the season with a winning percentage of .313%. However the Houston Texans...more