Compliance

The best training engages participants and leaves them with an understanding of how to apply the material in the real world. Jim Nortz discusses the critical role training plays in helping employees avoid the health care compliance bear traps. I’ll never forget the look on my colleagues’ faces as they trudged into the first eight-hour “train-the-trainer” sales and marketing code...

As COVID-19 shifts the risk and compliance landscape for businesses, Deloitte’s Rob Biskup comments on the changing environment and offers guidance for CCOs as they strive to move forward It can be said that when you strip the bark off a tree, it tends to expose the decay — and this metaphor may be particularly apt in the post-COVID-19 pandemic world that Chief...

COVID-19 is creating a gray area between legitimate collaboration and anticompetitive collusion. (Not all information exchanges point to price-fixing.) Morrison Foerster’s David Cross and Margaret Webb explain the impact this is having on lawful collaboration. Collaboration among businesses, including competitors, is critically important to help address the global pandemic. The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Federal Trade...

More often than not, companies stumble into one or more of the health care compliance bear traps out of ignorance rather than malfeasance. Jim Nortz discusses the key role sales and marketing codes of conduct can play in preventing noncompliance. “Papa God and the Monkey” was one of my kids’ favorite stories when they were little. In it, a woman...

COVID-19 has created incredible technology and compliance challenges for many companies. Professor Tom C.W. Lin explains how smartly integrating compliance and IT functions can help businesses better confront the pandemic's impact.  The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted businesses in unforeseen and unimaginable ways. As businesses navigate the changing terrain of life during and after a global pandemic in the coming...

COVID-19 has impacted virtually every aspect of our lives. Compliance pros may be wondering whether and how corporate compliance will ultimately be affected. Mark Delgado, Mitratech’s Managing Director of GRC, offers insights into how companies can meet compliance mandates as they emerge from COVID lockdowns. Once the planet has passed beyond the uncertainties of this outbreak, when the business world...

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...