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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Over the past few months, the OIG shorts series focused on structuring and implementing a comprehensive and effective ethics and compliance program. Many times, this requires a mindset shift from a checking-the-box mentality...more
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
We have outlined five governance considerations for assessing whether a company should respond, either in action or in words, to a sensitive issue or development. 1. Assess the issue’s relationship to the business. How does...more
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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
While billionaires continue to trumpet their excess and competitive desires to fly into space, they may want to take a look around before launching themselves on the next rocket to the edge of space for a ten-minute flight....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
We all know the phrase – “A fish rots from its head.” A perfectly accurate statement as to how corporate culture can suffer from leadership failures or C-Suite misconduct. But there is much more to corporate culture than...more
SAI Global has released a white paper entitled “Predicting Risk: A Strategic Culture Framework for the C-Suite” (the “White Paper”). I recently visited with the White Paper’s author, Caterina Bulgarella, who is a culture...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
We all know that a compliance program without business buy-in is, by definition, an ineffective compliance program. The level of business support ranges from “mouthing” support to full-fledged embrace and ownership of...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
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