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
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The role of Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) has evolved beyond risk mitigation into a critical strategic function. Today, CCOs are the stewards of regulatory compliance and strategic partners of the C-suite, shaping...more
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Even at companies with separate legal and compliance departments, Department of Justice-enforced compliance is a key concern for in-house counsel. Those pressures only will increase in the near future and are rapidly...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
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
In the last few years, the tension between chief compliance officers and general counsels appears to have subsided. The issue of separating CCOs from legal departments is not as important as it used to be. Why?...more
The compliance community is well aware of the risks in the C-Suite. As you move up the corporate ladder, the level of risk from executive misconduct increases. A rotten executive can quickly bring down a company, destroy...more
At the outset, I have to apologize for the title but during my morning bike ride I usually come up with blog posting titles. But moving past the trite title, I have a point to make....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
I can’t help myself; when I read some of the troubling reports about Uber’s workplace culture, which has contributed to executive ousters and the need to hire one of the highest-profile lawyers in the country, I think, “If...more
When unraveling a major corporate scandal, especially multi-year schemes involving senior executives, the blame game or lessons learned approach can easily turn into a fruitless exercise. The VA and Takata scandals are...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
As the headlines continue to point to major misconduct and scandals involving senior corporate executives, compliance officers need to refocus their efforts and address a critical need....more
We all tend to gloss over a critical requirement for an effective ethics and compliance program – tone-at-the-top. I hate to be dogmatic about the issue but, as Mel Brooks said in the Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 4, Episode...more
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
We all have heard the scenario involving a compliance professional. A new CCO joins a company with promises from the board, the CEO and senior executives of cooperation, compensation and support for a robust independent...more
As we close out the year, it is now time to begin the retrospective reviews and predictions for the New Year. I will try to keep them to a minimum but I find it important to reflect and look forward to new challenges....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
I often complain about compliance messaging. Compliance officers have to be careful to avoid becoming viewed as “nattering nabobs of negativism,” as former Vice President Spiro Agnew famously stated about the liberal media....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