News & Analysis as of

White Collar Crimes Chief Compliance Officers Best Practices

NAVEX

[Webinar] Proof in the Process – Why Documentation and Visibility Define Supply Chain Success - September 9th, 10:00 am - 10:45 am...

NAVEX on

The strength of your supply chain isn’t just in the partners you choose – it’s in the records, oversight, and accountability that prove your program works. This webinar explores how effective documentation and visibility...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

CCO Lessons from A Charlie Brown Christmas

Delegation is always a key technique in improving productivity. However, you should not simply “shove things off your plate” but use the opportunity to give specific and new challenges to employees to help in their own career...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

What is Your Compliance Game Plan?

What would you do if had to take over as a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in short notice? More often the situation might be, what would you do if you became a CCO through the more traditional hiring process? Fortunately, to...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The Benefits of an Effective Antitrust Compliance Program

Epstein Becker & Green on

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently released guidance outlining how DOJ evaluates antitrust corporate compliance programs as part of its Corporate Leniency program. This guidance...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Creeping Man and Risk Management by the Board

CCO reporting to the Audit/Compliance Committee must be structured carefully to promote ethics and compliance. Here are five best practices to help guide the reporting....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Three Garridebs and Objective Discipline

We are back to consider the next five stories from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, mining each story for themes and lessons related to the compliance professional, leadership and business ethics. In this week’s first...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

The Latest: New DOJ Antitrust Division Policy Makes Compliance Programs More Critical than Ever

What Happened: • Last week, the Antitrust Division reported that it has changed its Justice Manual to state that it will consider antitrust compliance at the charging stage in criminal antitrust investigations, instead of...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Corporate Law & Governance Update - May 2019

IMPORTANT BOARD COMPOSITION DEVELOPMENT - The board’s nominating committee will benefit from an overview of The Conference Board’s important new survey on board composition, turnover and refreshment. According to the...more

A&O Shearman

DOJ Criminal Division Announces Updated Corporate Compliance Program Guidance

A&O Shearman on

On April 30, 2019, the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division (“DOJ”), released an updated version of its guidance on “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (“Compliance Program Guidance”). This...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

What is the role of a CCO in strengthening the ethical culture of an organization?

Today, I want to consider what is the role of a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in strengthening the ethical culture of an organization.  This blog post is based on, in part in an interview I did with Eric Feldman from...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Agile Compliance = Operationalized Compliance: Part I – Coaching

Agile is not often a work method associated with compliance programs or the compliance profession. That may be from the heritage that many compliance practitioners came out of the General Counsel’s office or private practice...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Using Strategic Risk to Your Advantage

I am beginning to feel this week’s theme becoming all-encompassing. As hard as I might try, it looks like it will be the Houston Astros second World Series appearance. During the first one back in 2005, I was in the corporate...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Operationalizing Compliance: Part I – It All Starts with Pizza

With the release of their Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (Evaluation) in February, the Department of Justice (DOJ) emphasized yet again the importance of actually doing compliance and not simply having a paper...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

New DOJ Evaluation – Valuable Document for the Compliance Practitioner: Part II

Yesterday I began a two-part series on the Department of Justice (DOJ’s) “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (Evaluation) posted on the Fraud Section website late last week. The document is an 11-part list of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

New DOJ Evaluation – Valuable Document for the Compliance Practitioner: Part I

I guess Matt Kelly cannot leave his journalist roots for it was he who broke the story within the greater compliance community that the Department of Justice (DOJ) very quietly released a document, entitled “Evaluation of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

General Cable FCPA Enforcement Action – Part II: The Comeback

Yesterday I began an exploration of the General Cable Corporation (General Cable) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. It was settled with the DOJ via a Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) and the SEC via a...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance at the Tipping Point, Part I – The Yates Memo

This is the day that the US government traditionally celebrates Columbus’ discovery of the Americas, in the form of Columbus Day. My grandfather emigrated from Italy so he always took Columbus Day as his heritage day. My...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Tribute to John David Crow and an Innovation Strategy for Your Compliance Program

John David Crow died Wednesday. Until Johnny Football, he was the only football player from Texas A&M University to win the Heisman Trophy. He played under the legendary Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant at A&M and for all of Bryant’s...more

18 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide