Compliance

Organizations are confronting challenges they have never faced before as the recovery from COVID-19 begins. Squire Patton Boggs’ Laura Lawless and Dan Pasternak share a compliance checklist to guide businesses as operations resume. As states begin the process of gradually lifting COVID-19-related “stay-at-home” orders, employers face the unprecedented challenge of restarting their businesses after prolonged closure or after suddenly adopting...

Jim Nortz continues a six-part series discussing a number of regulatory “bear traps” in the health care industry with a discussion on the importance of effective internal controls in preventing fraud. Bob was a good guy. He was a trusted friend and colleague earning a healthy salary serving as CFO at a multinational corporation. I worked with Bob on several...

Venable’s Paul Debolt and Chris Griesedieck discuss two recent court cases that highlight key ways contractors should act now to prevent and prepare for possible whistleblower complaints in the months to come. Congress has responded to the recent COVID-19 pandemic with relief spending at historic levels, including federal funds that are enabling agencies to award contracts and grants to assist...

In just a few months, the concept of “business as usual” has gone out the window. The coronavirus pandemic has much of the world in lockdown, upending day-to-day life and business as we know it. LinkSquares CEO Vishal Sunak shares guidance to help companies manage their contracts effectively during this time. Companies are suddenly faced with the possibility that customers,...

Employers, staffers, and recruiters should be cautious of antitrust enforcement during COVID-19. The FTC and DOJ recently announced a concerted effort to find those who might engage in collusion or other anticompetitive conduct. Experts from Cozen O’Connor discuss how to comply with the latest guidelines. COVID-19 has introduced unique circumstances, including around employment practices, that could raise issues under state...

Morrison & Foerster’s James Koukios and Amanda Aikman examine 10 ways in which the anti-corruption compliance landscape changed dramatically in the 2010s and explain why they expect those trends to continue. As the decade of the 2010s closed, anti-corruption compliance and enforcement had become ubiquitous around the world. But the decade did not start that way. Underfunded enforcement agencies and...

The Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, Stark Law, Civil Monetary Penalty Law and Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act “bear traps” have ravaged the health care industry for decades. Despite the carnage they have wrought, these bear traps are completely avoidable. Jim Nortz provides practical actions you can take to protect your firm from their bite. In October 2013, Todd Clawson...

In a crisis, fraud risk is elevated significantly. Fox Rothschild partners Oksana Wright and Charles DeMonaco discuss the management actions and corporate compliance measures that can be taken to tackle the potential for fraud in periods of uncertainty like this one. There is no doubt that turbulent times create more opportunities for fraud and mismanagement and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...

Many organizations are beginning to think differently about who they are recruiting into the compliance structure. Tosin Umukoro, who came to compliance from a background in medical research, discusses how the skill sets the compliance profession requires can be found even in unlikely places. Backgrounds traditionally associated with compliance are legal, finance and risk. Although the skills associated with these...

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In a crisis, you may witness vastly different behavior from one person to the next. Calvin London draws parallels between the popular Australian coin-flipping game “Two-up,” and the wide range of human responses to tough times. In the land Down Under, there is a game that is part of our limited cultural history called “Two-up.” It is like flipping a...

While belt-tightening is unavoidable for companies nationwide, experts from global law firm Squire Patton Boggs and the Forensic Risk Alliance advise against drastically cutting the compliance spend, as doing so invites risk that could lead to large penalties down the road. The full magnitude of the global implications of COVID-19 is still largely unknown, as both the humanitarian and financial...