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
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
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
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco presented a new policy at a Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association event that requires chief compliance officers (CCO) to certify that...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 Office of Inspector General of Health and Human Services expects board members, board audit/compliance committee members, and senior level leaders of organizations to be experienced in compliance oversight. The Board &...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
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
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
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
Otherwise reputable Financial Institutions continue being sanctioned for regulatory non-compliance. Well known “household” names continue receiving fines for failing to establish and implement adequate Anti-Money Laundering...more
At the Opening Session of Compliance Week 2016, Stephen L. Cohen, Associate Director of Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Andrew Weissmann, Chief of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division’s...more
You might figure that the year I decide to jump back on the Houston Astros bandwagon, they go back in the tank. Last year they were one game away from the American League (AL) Championship. This year they have the third worst...more
There is something a little surreal when a CCO, while negotiating to join a company, raises the issue of his or her own termination. Not to be maudlin, but it is an important issue to consider....more
Today, we continue our exploration of the new Department of Justice (DOJ) Compliance Counsel and the metrics laid out by Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell who called for her review of compliance programs. These...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
Welcome to the August 2015 edition of Red Notice, a publication of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. This month on the anticorruption front, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more
Harry Lime is back, although he really never left us. As reported by Kristin M. Jones in a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article, entitled “Harry Lime Reborn”, the glorious British film noir The Third Man, written by Gra ham...more
I continue my exploration of actions you can take to improve your compliance program during an economic downturn with a review of what my colleague Jan Farley, the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) at Dresser-Rand, called the...more
If you are in the Far East there is now a master conference centered around the top compliance practitioners in the region. Next month, from June 8-9, Compliance Risk Logic is putting on its a conference in Singapore,...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
Over this week I have looked at some issues related to compensation and methods from other disciplines that a compliance practitioner might use to test and then improve a company’s third party management regime. Today, I want...more
If you were alive at all during the 1960s, you will recall that one of the cultural phenomenon’s was NBC’s television show Laugh-In. It was brought to you from the NBC studios in beautiful downtown Burbank and featured one...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