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Russell A. Stamets
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The FCPA Blog’s contributing editor, Tom Fox, is one of the leading writers, thinkers and commentators on the nuts and bolts of compliance. His practical advice is now available in one volume, The Complete Compliance Handbook.… Continue Reading
Tomorrow is May 1st — also known as May Day or International Workers’ Day — a public holiday in most of the world, including our present location. It’s a day to honor workers and their achievements, and to give people a well-timed spring holiday.… Continue Reading
Former Telia Compliance Chief Michaela AhlbergMichaela Ahlberg created a compliance program from scratch when she was hired in 2013 by Swedish telecommunications firm Telia following allegations of corruption in its foreign business dealings.… Continue Reading
Earlier this week Richard Bistrong and Marc Hodak, writing for the FCPA Blog, considered how the Wells Fargo incentive system got so out of whack, and how this out-of-whackness contributed to the scandal around fraudulent account openings that has engulfed the bank since last August.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of C-SpanLeslie Caldwell, chief of the DOJ’s criminal division, spoke at the Compliance Week Conference in Washington, D.C. Tuesday. After talking about some defenses that don’t work, she described the ten hallmarks of an effective compliance program, and she warned companies to obey all the laws they’re subject to.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of New England Law | BostonLaw-related employment for grads from American law schools isn’t exactly robust. In 2013, the ABA Journal said, only 57 percent of the that year’s JDs had full-time bar-passage-required jobs.… Continue Reading
Leslie Caldwell, chief of the DOJ’s criminal division, talked at last week’s Annual Ethics and Compliance Conference in Atlanta. She covered the ten hallmarks of an effective compliance program and cooperation with the DOJ in FCPA and other white-collar investigations.… Continue Reading
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Reducing Regulatory Risk in an Era of Intensified Enforcement covers the new FCPA Guidance and the DOJ’s ten hallmarks of an effective compliance program.
As companies struggle to deal with compliance issues in the expanding global markets, they can no longer rely solely on automated compliance. Today compliance should also be intelligent.
What is intelligent compliance? … Continue Reading
Before the Siemens case and the birth of the modern era of FCPA enforcement, there were the ten elements of an effective compliance program. They came from the U.S. federal sentencing guidelines applicable to corporate defendants.… Continue Reading