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…

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…

Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – December 2017 An interesting article in The Wall Street Journal reported on the growing role of contract employees in companies. While exact figures are uncertain, the percentages…