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As the year end approaches, I have been thinking back on the last 11 months and where I have seen the most confusion for companies regarding import and export compliance.

There is certainly no shortage of significant compliance issues in today’s complex business and regulatory environment. Our global economy has produced opportunities for growth and success that can come with an increased need for governance, oversight and formal corporate compliance....

This article by Matthew Reinhard of Miller & Chevalier will not only assist oil companies in ensuring compliance with anti-corruption laws and policies, but assist the compliance department in adding real business value to transactions.

When properly managed, non-employees give businesses a competitive advantage, but improper hiring and management practices can introduce employers to a whole other set of challenges and risk. Matt Rivera breaks down the potential co-employment and independent contractor compliance issues, and...

Too often, organizations forget that busy people working in challenging times need to know what to do and what not to do related to compliance -- with the same clarity as other job responsibilities they shoulder. Most importantly, they need...

Tod Reichert, Bonnie Green, and David Wilson discuss the roles of the General Counsel and the Chief Compliance Officer, and responsibilities can and should be divvied up when the titles are held by two individual people.

This article, by Ron Kral of Candela Solutions, defines and identifies several elements of successful corporate compliance programs and also looks at compliance within the realm of the bigger governance, risk and compliance (GRC) picture.

Sasha Kalb and Marc Bohn of Miller & Chevalier provide an in-depth examination of the SEC's application of disgorgement - the remedy used to deprive wrong-doers of their ill-gotten gains and deter violations of federal securities law - in FCPA...

James Bone warns against a "mini Y2K" that might exist at many firms in the form of service recoveries, customer rebates for inaccurate calculations, or financial statement restatements. By implementing regular health checks on systems output controls, a significant number...

Lack of a documented security policy is a huge red flag when determining liability in the event of an incident. You do not know when the next attack will happen and if someone is aggressively targeting you, they will cause...