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Corporate Compliance, Governance, and Risk Articles and News

Interactive Antitrust Compliance Presentations – Some Ideas
by Joe Murphy - more by Joe Murphy
Recognize that effective training is a real challenge that calls for hard work and creative thinking. To help get the ideas flowing, here are some tools to consider.
Focus on the “Tone of the Organization”
by Jim DeLoach - more by Jim DeLoach
If the behavior of middle managers contradicts the messaging and values conveyed from the top, it won’t take long for lower-level employees to notice.
More Latin American Data for your FCPA Compliance Program: Petty Corruption
by Matteson Ellis - more by Matteson Ellis
What kind of controls can companies use to minimize the risk that employees will set up sham contracts? We asked forensic accountant David Wolfe to provide his insights...
Debunking Myths About Activist Investors
by Chuck Nathan - more by Chuck Nathan
Activist investing has become quite the rage in the equity marketplace...as a result, it is occupying the thoughts, and sometimes the nightmares, of an increasing number of corporate executives and their advisers...
Supreme Court Takes Up SOX Whistleblower Case
The central issue to be determined is whether an employee of a privately held contractor or subcontractor of a public company is protected from retaliation...
The Drugstore Cowboy and Compliance
by Thomas Fox - more by Thomas Fox
One does not have to look very far in the business world to come across the phrase “Know Your Customer.” But how much more should a company do in regards to its customers?
Compliance Risk: Key Focus of 12th Annual Compliance and Ethics Institute
Since a key aspect of a compliance and ethics professional's work is to identify, assess, and monitor compliance risks, each year the Institute offers specific "risk-related" educational sessions in its program...
Are Corporations Getting It? A Corporate eDiscovery “Risk Check”
by Tom Matzen - more by Tom Matzen
eDiscovery has emerged as one of the fastest growing markets in the US economy. With that attention has finally come a wave of corporations who are much more active in calling the shots...
Top Five Compliance Risks Regarding eDiscovery
by Michael Conner - more by Michael Conner
No attorney enters into an engagement with the expectation of being sanctioned. However, the number of judicial sanctions for eDiscovery related infractions has increased disproportionately to both case volume and overall data volume growth rates.
Top Compliance Risks Facing Health Care Professionals
by Todd Kerr - more by Todd Kerr
Recent legislation and increased government enforcement actions are shining a bright light on some of the top compliance risks facing today’s health care professionals...
Marketing the FCPA and the FCPA Risks Of, Well, Just About Everything
by Mike Koehler - more by Mike Koehler
Marketing of the FCPA is indeed a topic worthy of exploration and this post profiles recent FCPA marketing activity...