This post originally appeared in my old blog, KM Space. I was one of the founding contributors to JD Supra. I was intrigued by the idea of a collective repository of legal documents. Intrigued enough that I was also a top ten contributor for a while. One of criticisms was that a mere online repository [...]
Archive | November, 2008
Assessing Corporate Culture
Ed Petry of the Ethical Leadership Group put together a two part paper on Assessing Corporate Culture: Assessing Corporate Culture – Part I and Assessing Corporate Culture – Part II. [There are] specific steps that compliance and ethics officers can take to begin the process of identifying their organizations’ culture including: • Conduct surveys, focus [...]
Comprehensive Changes to Family and Medical Leave Act Regulations
On November 17, 2008, the U.S. Department of Labor published final regulations under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). Morgan Lewis put together this great summary of the regulatory changes: Department of Labor Enacts Comprehensive Changes to Family and Medical Leave Act Regulations (.pdf)
2008 Update on Anti-Curruption
The Anti-Corruption Committee of the American Bar Association consisting of Leslie Benton, Michael Kieval, Caroline Lindsey, Kerry Mandernach, Philip Urofsky, and Alexandra Wrage prepared an Anti-Corruption update for the Summer 2008 edition of The International Lawyer.
Updates to OFAC’s SDN List
FinCEN updated the SDN list with companies and individuals associated with the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe: Treasury Designates Mugabe Regime Cronies. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated four Mugabe regime cronies and a number of entities owned or controlled by two of them. The financial and logistical [...]
Bribery’s Broken Windows
Alexandra Wrage of TRACE international wrote Bribery’s Broken Windows (.pdf) for the Q1 edition of Ethisphere. She tackles the credibility issue with allowing facilitating payments to low level officials, but saying “no” to senior ranking official. She advocates that the companies should prohibit payments at all levels. She looks to the New York subway system’s [...]
Massachusetts State Ethics Commission’s Online Training Program
The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission has published an Online Training Program for Chapter 268A. The interactive questions and answers are directed at state employees.
Norfolk Developer Accused Of Ethics Breach
Michele Morgan Bolton of the Boston Globe reports that Jack Scott, president of Pine Creek Development Corp., was accused last week of violating state law by allegedly offering a free week at his Pennsylvania cabin to the chairman of the town’s Conservation Commission while he had an application before the board: Developer Accused of Ethics [...]
Larger Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Fines Ahead
Lynn Marek of the National Law Journal reports: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission expects in the next two to six months to slap larger penalties than in the past on a number of companies that have allegedly violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, reminding lawyers in the field that the regulator is taking a [...]
TRACE and FCPA Opinion Procedure Release 08-03
The Summer 2008 newsletter from TRACE International provides some more background on FCPA Opinion Procedure Release 08-03. TRACE points out that this release was the first time that the DOJ has approved the payment of a specific dollar amount to government officials.
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