Compliance into the Weeds: The Dark Side of AI in Employee Training
What to Do When Leadership Doesn’t Take Compliance Seriously
Compliance Tip of the Day - The ROI of Compliance
Moving Beyond the Usual Helpline Data
Avoiding a Bored Board
Compliance Tip of the Day: Compliance Responses to Design Intelligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Avoiding CCO Liability
#Risk New York Speaker Series: Exploring AI Risks in Compliance with Gwen Hassan
Everything Compliance: Episode 155, To Tesla and Beyond Edition
Great Women in Compliance: Culture. Data. Ethics with Hui Chen
Compliance Amidst a Global Consensus Breakdown
Great Women in Compliance – Compliance is the Floor, Ethics is the Ceiling with Ellen Hunt
Innovation in Compliance: Innovative Approaches to Compliance and Training with Catherine Choe
FCPA Compliance Report: Upping Your Game in Compliance
Compliance Tip of the Day: Empowering Middle Managers to Drive Compliance Transformation
Creativity and Compliance: From Compliance Enforcers to Trusted Advisors: The Path Forward
Compliance Tip of the Day: Middle Managers as the Eyes and Ears of Compliance
Great Women in Compliance: Exploring the Future of Compliance - Key Takeaways from Compliance Week 2025
Mistakes Lawyers Should Avoid When Moving into Compliance
Innovation in Compliance: Exploring the Fractional COO Model with La Tonya Roberts
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The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has a lot going for it right now: a director hellbent on tackling complex fraud, bribery, and corruption, an enhanced budget, new partnerships to tackle international bribery and corruption...more
I recently had the opportunity to visit with Vince Walden for the inaugural episode of the newest podcast on the Compliance Podcast Network, Data Driven Compliance. Walden is a compliance professional with 15 years of...more
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The Department of Justice is sending a clear message to companies when it comes to corporate crime: invest in strong compliance structures and culture and come forward quickly with information about misconduct—or suffer the...more
The new DOJ Certification requirements certainly raise a number of new issues and risks for senior management and chief compliance officers. In Part I of this series, I outlined the specific language and the Plea Agreement...more
There was a paucity of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions in 2021. However, the few enforcement actions announced did provide significant lessons for every compliance professional....more
2021 was a very significant year for every compliance practitioner and compliance program. While there was a paucity of corporate FCPA enforcement actions, the three enforcement actions were significant with multiple lessons...more
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has targeted collusion in labor markets for criminal prosecution. This was not unexpected. Indeed, the Antitrust Division gave plenty of warning to companies that criminal...more
I am continuing my review of the Amec Foster Wheeler (Foster Wheeler) international corruption enforcement action. Today, I want to focus on the underlying facts of the corruption. These facts are laid out in the Department...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
For the first time in six years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has released an Opinion Release, denominated 20-01. At first blush it appears to be a straight-forward recitation of the equivalent of black letter law in the...more
Yesterday, I considered five Department of Justice (DOJ) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions. Today, I want to look at key FCPA enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)....more
On December 6, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to resolve allegations that multinational telecommunications company Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or...more
This white paper will examine the background facts of the Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) FCPA case, provide a detailed review of the bribery schemes involved, the compliance failures of MTS and its actions during the...more
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Anti-Corruption enforcement remained a top priority in France, the UK, and the US in 2018. Join our firm's Global Anti-Corruption Team as they explain and analyze these three countries' anti-corruption enforcement efforts and...more
This blog post concludes my multi-part exploration of the Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (Petrobras) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. Today we consider the stunning result achieved by Petrobras –...more
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To my mind the most significant and important book that every Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), General Counsel (GC) and compliance practitioner needs to read is The Chickenshit Club by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jesse...more
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