Menu5/4/20: “For many companies these days, the question is not if you will face an employment-related lawsuit, but when?” That’s the introduction to an article by Emily Spennato posted on Risk&Insurance. It’s an intro likely to cause corporate attorneys, officers and compliance heads at least one sharp intake of breath...
Compliance Communications Blog
May 04, 2020 •
5/4/20: There has been an ongoing debate for years about how much power a compliance officer should have within a for-profit organization. Richard Cassin tackles that question in a post on The FCPA Blog, coming down on the side of more. In his post, Cassin sets the stage for the “more power” perspective, writing, “It’s the culmination of what the top names at the DOJ and SEC have been advocating for nearly ten years — compliance officers as gatekeepers.”
Mar 09, 2020 •
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...
Feb 24, 2020 •
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 ...
Feb 24, 2020 •
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. ...
