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During the past month, I’ve been in London at the SCCE European initiative conference and last week at the Florida convention of the Health Care Compliance Association. The month has been an opportunity to gain some new perspective on the community of global compliance officers.… Continue Reading
Official expectations that companies will check to make sure that their compliance and ethics (“C&E”) standards are being followed have existed since the advent of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations in 1991.… Continue Reading
The SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute could become the focus for an annual debate within the compliance field about the critical issues ahead. In honor of the SCCE’s 10 years of supporting compliance officers, here are my top ten suggestions for next year’s SCCE agenda:
10.… Continue Reading
At oral argument Thursday in the Delaware Supreme Court, where Walmart is appealing a lower court order to produce internal FCPA investigation files to shareholders, one remarkable exchange indicated that the idea of revising the Caremark standards, which I talked about in my prior post, was squarely on the minds of the justices.… Continue Reading
In this second post of an eight-part series on “parental controls” (Part 1 is here), we explore the types of harm that parent companies may suffer for the wrongdoing that occurs at joint ventures, subsidiaries and franchisees.… Continue Reading
What’s the first thing compliance officers need to do? We’d say it’s convincing management and board members they need an effective compliance program. That’s not easy. It takes advocacy, and advocacy takes credibility.… Continue Reading