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Are Corporate Lawyers Also Compliance Enforcers?

Written by Compliance Wave | July 1, 2019 at 7:24 PM

7/1/19: “What role do corporate lawyers play in preventing wrongdoing by executives in their client organizations?” asks Jeff Kaplan in a post on his Conflict of Interest Blog.  He continues, “And how is this role impacted by behavioral ethics?”...

Kaplan then references a paper by Paula Schaefer of the University of Tennessee College of Law in which she focuses on “… some of the key factors that corporate attorneys are unconsciously influenced by as they try to decide how (or if) to address client conduct that may amount to a crime or fraud”...