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Toyota, Ethics and Compliance March 15, 2010 With Toyota's problems all over the news, I started to think about whether compliance and ethics professionals could learn anything from these problems. To begin, I don't think there is a systemic problem with their vehicles or with the company. I ...
New Codes of Conduct for Real Estate Companies March 10, 2010 It's always useful to look at what your competition is doing. The same is true in drafting your code of conduct (or code of ethics or whatever name you chose). It is useful to look at you what your competitors' codes of conduct look like. Since Sar...
Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again) November 5, 2009 Massachusetts has revised its data privacy regulations one more time. The revised regulations are less demanding that the original version released over a year ago. But this law is the strictest in the country and will be the de facto law of the land ...
Compliance, Van Halen and Brown M&M's August 3, 2009 You may have heard the story about Van Halen's banning of brown M&M's from its dressing room. I chalked it up to the pampered life of rock stars. (Especially, when compared to the more mundane life of a chief compliance officer.) I just listene...
Workplace Computer Policy and the Attorney Client Privilege July 6, 2009 Back in April, I mentioned a New Jersey case that found e-mail, sent during work hours on a company computer, was not protected by the attorney-client privilege: Compliance Policies and Email (Stengart v. Loving Care ) That case has now been ove...
Attorney-Client Privilege and Internal Investigations April 14, 2009 Two cases illustrate some of the problems with the use of outside counsel for internal investigations. The possibility that a conflict of interest could arise when an attorney or law firm simultaneously represents an organization and one or more of its o...
Compliance and Recommendations on Social Networking Sites March 24, 2009 I am an enthusiast of social networking sites and web 2.0. But I realize they have limitations and dangers. I have been very concerned about the Recommendations feature in LinkedIn. That feature allows any of your connections on LinkedIn to post a rec...
Corporate Compliance Fraud in Georgia, Florida and Massachusetts March 6, 2009 Just like the Corporate Compliance Fraud in Ohio, Compliance Services is also targeting companies in Georgia, Florida and Massachusetts. The Daily Citizen is reporting Georgia corporations warned about solicitations. The Georgia Secretary of State issu...