Compliance Communications Blog

 

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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See Misconduct, Report Misconduct

3/9/20: A recent article by Shylah Alfonso, Jon Jacobs and Charles Samel of law firm Perkins Cole highlights the importance of reporting observed or suspected wrongdoing.  Their article, published on JDSupra, explains how such reporting ranks in DOJ’s decision to charge a company with criminal antitrust violations...

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A New Understanding of Corporate Compliance and Governance

2/24/20: In an article by law firm Allen & Overy and published on JDSupra sets the stage with this, “In this new decade, ‘corporate culture’ has a much broader definition and now includes, among other things, employer attentiveness to employee concerns, diversity and inclusion, and, more generally, corporate social responsibility ...

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Guide on Best Practices | Supervising Effective Compliance Programs

2/24/20: A book from APEC’s (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Anti-Corruption and Transparency Working Group takes on a heavy task.  The Guidebook on Best Practices in Monitoring and Supervising Effective Corporate Compliance Programs drills into multiple categories including the experience of international organizations (OECD, UNCAC and the World Bank) in promoting corporate compliance.  ...

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