Donna Boehme – Corporate Compliance Insights – June 5, 2018 One of the most important features of any compliance program is its written Mandate. The correctly scoped mandate, approved by the Board and understood by senior…
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – June 2018 Here is the situation you confront. Allegations of misconduct are made about a senior official. The allegations go back to conduct over the course of…
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – May 2018 As part of another recent project, the question came up, “What does it mean to do monitoring in a compliance program?” Under the Sentencing Guidelines,…
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – April 2018 In a recent article on 2017 developments, Rebecca Walker discussed the increased focus by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on the role of the…
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – March 2018 In 2004, the U.S. Sentencing Commission amended the compliance program standards to make one of its most important improvements: It required companies to “evaluate periodically…
Tony Chapelle – Agenda Week – February 2018 The bombshell news two weeks ago that Steve Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, allegedly raped one employee and sexually harassed numerous others reminded board directors…
Joseph Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – February 2018 The Antitrust Division makes a point of this: no existing compliance program is considered for any purpose. This is a one-size-fits-all policy: no matter how…
Henry Cutter – The Wall Street Journal – January 23, 2018 Fewer than one in five companies give compliance staff substantive roles in handling major mergers, and more than half have unresolved compliance problems that…
Joe Murphy – The Wall Street Journal – January 9, 2018 A memo from the Trump-appointed general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board suggests the agency may take a new approach to issues related…
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – January 2018 It’s big news in the employment field: According to some studies, having a policy and mandatory training doesn’t prevent harassment. So when California mandates two…
