Dilbert and company and looking at risk management software this week. Does any of this sound familiar? Ethical issues and bad data? Misunderstanding what it can do?
Archive | March, 2009
France Decides Not to Criminalize International Bribery
“France has severely restricted its jurisdiction and its ability to prosecute cases with an international dimension, which, given the country’s importance in the international economy and the scale of many of its companies, is very regrettable,” according to a report by GRECO. The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) was established in 1999 by the [...]
Approaching the Sphinx: The DOJ’s Opinion Release Procedure under the FCPA
Alexandra Wrage of the WrageBlog shares her experiences using the Department of Justice’s opinion release procedure under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Approaching the Sphinx: The DOJ’s Opinion Release Procedure. Ms. Wrage takes us through the experiences of TRACE International in obtaining FCPA Opinion Procedure Release 08-03. The opinion release procedure for the Foreign Corrupt [...]
Betting the Corporation: Compliance or Defiance
Lawrence D. Finder, Ryan D. McConnell & Scott L. Mitchell drafted a paper surveying the sixteen corporate deferred prosecutions and non-prosecution agreements entered into by the Department of Justice in 2008. Betting the Corporation: Compliance or Defiance? Compliance Programs in the Context of Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements – Corporate Pre-Trial Agreement Update – 2008 In [...]
Let’s Get Ethical!, Ethical!, I Want To Get Ethical…
Those of you that watch NBC’s “The Office” see some of the best examples of what NOT to do in business every week. They also tackled what not NOT to do in an Ethics Training course. The clip shows some of the worst training skills (reading from the binder, HR-speak, etc.). It also provides an [...]
Twitter and Presentations
At President Obama’s State of the Union address, there was a fair amount coverage by the media and by the Congressman in attendance. Several dozen Congressmen have twitter accounts and many were sending out messages during the address. Is this Good or Bad? What about people in the audience when you are giving your next [...]
Waiving the Attorney-Client Privilege By Seeking Tax Advice
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court focused on the issue of whether the attorney-client privilege protected communications between an in-house corporate counsel and outside tax accountants. Commissioner of Revenue v. Comcast Corporation, et al., SJC-10209 (March 3, 2009). The general rule is that the voluntary disclosure of privileged information to a third party consultant for the [...]
Madoff Goes From His Penthouse to the Big House
Bernie Madoff filed past a sea of reporters and camera flashes to enter his guilty plea in front of Judge Denny Chin. Several victims spoke, asking the judge to reject the plea and force a trial. They want grueling trial to make Madoff suffer and to bring more facts out to the public. Since he [...]
Seven Questions to Ask to Optimize Your Compliance Programs
Compliance Week put on a webinar covering Practical Guidance: Seven Questions to Ask to Optimize Your Compliance Programs. Bruce McCuaig, Vice President, Risk and Compliance and Mike Rost, Vice President, Marketing of Paisley presented. Mike started off with some background of Paisley, then moved onto the “Why?” of Compliance. Companies want to avoid the downside [...]
Conducting C-Suite Investigations
EthicsPoint presented a webinar on conducting C-Suite Investigations, with Sally Rhys, BA, MS, CCEP of Business Ethics Focus. No-one wants to believe that allegations against the C-suite (Senior Executives) could be true. But with daily news reports of more cases of illegal and unethical transgressions by senior leaders, we all know that every organization is [...]
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