Daily Compliance News: July 29, 2025 the Is CEO Conduct Ever Personal Edition
Guidepost in Motion: Off The Chain Part 2 Innovations and Best Practices in Crypto and Blockchain
Cyberside Chats: Don’t silo your risk from legal (with Ingrid Rodriguez)
Digging Deeper Episode 10: Misguided or Misconduct? Understanding Bad Behavior in the Corporate World
M365 in 5 – Part 7: Teams Audio/Video (A/V) Conferencing
M365 in 5 – Part 6: Teams Channels – The virtual collaboration workspace
M365 in 5 – Part 5: Teams Chats – Modern communications
M365 in 5 – Part 4: Teams – An introduction to collaboration
M365 in 5 – Part 3: OneDrive for Business – Protected personal collaboration
M365 in 5 – Part 2: SharePoint Online – The new file-share environment
M365 in 5 – Part 1: Exchange Online – Not just a mailbox
Sitting with the C-Suite: Differentiating Through Client Service
Sitting with the C-Suite: Culture Integration in a Remote Work Environment
Sitting with the C-Suite: HaystackID and NightOwl Merger Overview
Sitting with the C-Suite: Managing through Challenging Times? Focus on the Key Three
Nota Bene Episode 91: China Q3 Check In - Trade Wars, GDP Growth, Pandemic Comparatives, and Hong Kong with Michael Zhang
Sitting with the C-Suite: COVID 19 Impact – Four Sectors of Change for the Legal Industry
Sitting with the C-Suite: Legal Industry Technology Adoption
Sitting with the C-Suite: Trial Prep as a Launchpad for Services
Sitting with the C-Suite: eDiscovery Observations – Historical Lookback to 1990s and 2000s
Cross-jurisdiction cooperation in the fight against international corruption and bribery is intensifying. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), and Switzerland’s Office of...more
In recent years, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have gained heightened attention as organizations recognize the moral and business imperatives behind fostering diverse work environments. This shift is not only a...more
13th Annual Risk & Compliance Virtual Conference | Thursday, September 19 - A thriving future begins with smart governance, risk and compliance decision-making today. Join thousands of your peers at this complimentary...more
Sometimes compliance issues are simple. Most times they are nuanced. This is a simple issue but it carries with it a significant message. So here goes – where is the CCO’s office?...more
Participate in a thoughtful discussion with a panel of privacy experts, and moderated by Epiq, on the challenges, learnings, and best practices to handle privacy and compliance. We would like to personally invite you to...more
If you speak to members of a corporate board and the C-Suite and you ask them if the company has a strong ethical culture, we all know what they will say – “Of course, we do. We have a strong commitment to our Code of...more
The Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, 2019 Guidance, makes clear that operationalization of compliance into an organization should be done at multiple levels. The 2019 Guidance also called out culture as a key...more
The path of the compliance profession has been remarkable. Recently, I have seen a number of tweets and postings from compliance thought leaders touting the accomplishments of compliance and the transformation of the...more
[co-author: Mark Newberg, Director of Impact Strategies] Recently, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, took a noteworthy step in an open letter he wrote to the CEO’s of all publicly traded...more
Let’s start out with something ironic – the C-Suite typically resists the need for ethics and compliance training, as well as other compliance controls, claiming that they know everything about ethics and compliance....more
It is easy to say something and convince yourself it is true. As George Costanza advised Jerry Seinfeld when Jerry had to take a polygraph examination when he failed to admit that he watched “Melrose Place,” “Remember Jerry....more
Compliance professionals are riding high. They are the darlings of the corporate governance world, commanding higher salaries, C-Suite positions with access to senior leadership and the board, and an empowered position within...more
Many compliance professionals in the corporate world work long and hard to rise up to the senior management level in their organizations. It takes subject matter expertise, hard work and sometime propitious good fortune to...more
Maureen O’Hara died this week. To anyone who has ever watched The Quiet Man on St. Patrick’s Day, she will always be known as Mary Kate Danaher, who was pursued and eventually wed by John Wayne. Testament to the fiery...more
Today, I wrap up my series on why I think compliance is at the Tipping Point. However as it is a Friday in October, I continue my tribute to the Man in the Shadows, producer Val Lewton, whose films for RKO had some of the...more
The compliance profession continues to evolve and grow. More lawyers and law students are seeking knowledge and training in the field of ethics and compliance. There is a reason for that....more
You can talk all you want about the importance of “tone-at-the-top.” People use that term all the time and everyone nods their heads in agreement. But what is the “top”? Is it the CEO? Is it senior executives? Is it the...more
That football truism (allegedly) came from former Texas Longhorn head coach Darrell Royal. While he intoned it in a different era, Pete Carroll and his Seattle Seahawks proved it still to be valid in the most recent Super...more
The ongoing debate whether certain executives are “too big to jail” misses the most important trend in corporate governance – namely, that criminal conduct is rising in the C-Suite. Viewed from a broad perspective, since...more
The most significant corporate governance trend in the last five years has been the rise of the chief compliance officer. No longer shuffled off to the back benches of corporate governance, corporate executives are...more
Today we celebrate one of America’s greatest political commentaries, The Federalist Papers. They were penned by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. They presented their three views on why the Federal Constitution...more
There can be a variety of reasons why bad decisions get made in the corporate world. Last week I wrote about psychopaths in the C-Suite and Boardroom. Today I want to look at some less flamboyant, more mundane ways that a...more
In the face of unprecedented enforcement risks, Chief Executive Officers are embracing the Chief Compliance Officer....more