Compliance

Monitoring your intermediaries can be an expensive endeavor. Jim Nortz explores how to keep an eye on your intermediaries without breaking the bank. Read Part 5 here. Years ago, a friend of mine recounted for me his first law school class. He and his fellow classmates had assembled and were seated in the lecture hall. There was a buzz of...

The pandemic has changed the way most companies are onboarding new hires, presenting compliance managers with new challenges to face. True Office Learning’s Harper Wells explores what compliance programs can do to effectively train new (and often remote) workers. The first days of a new job can be exciting, optimistic and a little nerve-wracking, but they also offer a chance...

Delivering anti-corruption training to intermediaries is a tough gig. Jim Nortz explores the importance of engagement and dialogue in compliance training. Read Part 4 here. The general counsel for our Asian operations was a very impressive man. He was among the first 400 attorneys licensed in China following the death of Chairman Mao Zedong. Later, he also obtained a law...

Obvious conflicts of interest and a pattern of corrupt bidding practices led to penalties announced today by the Royal Court of Justice. Sofia El Mansouri, reporting for CCI, outlines the issues and offers takeaways for today's compliance professionals. The U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has entered into its ninth deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Airline Services Limited (ASL) after obtaining...

No contract in the world could stop an intermediary truly determined to commit bribery, but contracts can be quite handy enforcement tools. Jim Nortz considers what makes an intermediary contract most effective. Read Part 3 here. One day in Contract Law class, Professor Kelly asked one of his better students, “Now if you were to give someone an orange, how...

This whitepaper offers an Information Governance Lifecycle Model that aims to assist organizations in dealing with content on the web, on mobile devices, in team collaboration and on social media. How to Manage Communication & Collaboration Tools for Compliance As companies instructed their employees to work from home at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an existing information challenge was...

Conducting thorough due diligence can be tedious work, but (as with most endeavors) putting in the effort yields the best results. Jim Nortz outlines a three-step process for effectively assessing intermediaries. Read Part 2 here. I am a terrible scientist. At least that’s the conclusion I reached when I worked as a college co-op student at the Xerox Laboratories in...

As Jim Nortz explains, a boots-on-the-ground, eyeball-to-eyeball assessment can be a powerful and effective way to conduct first-party due diligence. After all, “there ain’t nothin’ like touchin’ and feelin’.” Read Part 1 here. In the early 1990s, I served as Senior Safety, Health and Environmental Counsel for a multinational specialty chemical company. A couple of years after joining the firm,...

StarCompliance’s Tim Ward offers high-level thinking on exactly what organizational culture is, practical steps you can take to shape it and where technology comes in. Corporate culture is a hot topic. The idea is that it's a primary driver for all sorts of company activity. Good and bad. Helpful and not so helpful. But it's an especially hot topic in...

Third-party intermediaries pose a significant corruption risk for multinationals. In this six-part series, Jim Nortz provides practical steps to reduce your firm’s corruption risk and avoid prosecution in the event an intermediary is caught paying bribes. After less than six months on the job as Chief Compliance Officer for a multinational corporation, I found myself in a shabby conference room...

Four attorneys with Baker Donelson discuss what employers should know about the EO deferring the withholding, deposit and payment of the employee’s share of FICA taxes funding Social Security for the final quarter of 2020. The President's Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing COVID-19 Disaster, dated August 12, 2020 (Order), directs the Secretary of the...

Sponsored The details surrounding Zoom HIPAA compliance aren’t as simple as you’d think. Onna’s Scott McVeigh discusses what organizations should know about the platform powering telehealth visits across the nation. Like many pandemic-induced virtual trends, telehealth continues to break into the mainstream at a rapid pace. The “anytime, anywhere” doctor visits appeal to many across the U.S., with reports of...