More than half of approximately 2,100 business professionals (56 percent) surveyed during a Deloitte webcast about reducing fraud risks think more financial statement fraud will be uncovered this year and in 2011, as compared to the last three years.
A majority of business professionals (64 percent) polled during a recent Deloitte webcast think the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act will be effective in increasing the total dollar amount the government will recover under the False Claims Act.
According to the SCCE survey on employees and social networking, via HR Morning, 25% of employees have been disciplined for activities on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP today announced the promotion of ten attorneys, as well as the re–election of Roger E. Warin as Chair and Philip L. Malet as Vice Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee for another two years.
New research from Lehigh University finds that the majority of the world’s corporations implemented corporate governance measures without taking into account the financial and legal systems of the country in which they operate, and in turn, negatively impacted the firm’s performance. In fact, the authors found that over the period studied as many as 66 percent of the world’s corporations either invested too much or too little in corporate governance based on the financial and legal system in which they operate.
DLA Piper announced today that Luis Mejia has joined the firm’s Securities Enforcement and Litigation practices as a partner in the Washington, DC office. Mejia formerly served as Chief Litigation Counsel, Division of Enforcement, at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he supervised the commission’s nationwide litigation program and assisted in planning and directing the SEC’s enforcement efforts.
The Corporate Executive Board today announced a strategic alliance with Corpedia, a global leader in compliance and ethics solutions and e-learning. The new alliance will bring the latest compliance and ethics tools and resources to members of the Compliance and Ethics Leadership Council (CELC) and the General Counsel Roundtable (GCR), programs of the Corporate Executive Board.
Although most (72 percent) business professionals expect an increase in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations in the next two years, one-third (34 percent) of organizations still have no comprehensive FCPA compliance program in place, according to a recent Deloitte webcast poll.
DLA Piper is pleased to announce that Sharie Brown, chair of our Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Anti-Corruption and Corporate Compliance practice group and a partner in our Litigation practice, was named to the 2009 Ethisphere Institute “Attorneys Who Matter” list of Ethisphere Magazine, which recognizes leading legal professionals who contributed significantly to the corporate compliance arena.
EthicsPoint, a leading provider of hotline and anti-fraud reporting and case management services, today announced updated versions of its Issue and Event Manager (IEM) Professional and Enterprise solutions.
