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SEC Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response

3/23/20: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released an update on its response to COVID-19 “… and the related effects on our securities market.” One of SEC’s priorities: “… maintaining our enforcement and investor protection efforts, particularly with regard to the protection of our critical market systems and our most vulnerable investors.”  

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Teleworking and Honesty

3/23/20: Teleworking may have been a choice for companies last year. Now, it is often a requirement as state and local governments require many companies to send their employees home to work. The logistics of the requirement take serious effort but what about the “softer” issues – issues such as employee honesty away from a corporate setting?

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Closing in On The UK Bribery Act’s First Decade

3/9/20: When it came into effect, the UK Bribery Act was heralded as a changing point in the UK’s anti-corruption efforts. Since then, there have been some major investigations, regulatory updates, changing captains leading the agency and what some have seen as a disappointing track record of enforcement and conviction...

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Risks from an “Irregular Investigation”

3/9/20: A client advisory from law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed looks at an appeals court decision that “…may result in increased employment litigation.”  The case centered on a male employee’s allegation of sexual harassment by a female student.  The employee was terminated by the university after what was found by the court to be an “irregular investigation" ...

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Facing Global Bribery and Corruption

3/9/20: Hogan Lovells has released its Global Bribery and Corruption Outlook 2020, a well-organized publication stuffed with practical information about the outlook for individual business sectors, countries, multi-nation entities and regions...

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