Highlights

New Codes of Conduct for Real Estate Companies

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 8:00 am

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 Sarbanes-Oxley requires a public company to have a code...
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New Social Media Policies Database

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 8:00 am

I assembled a collection of social media policies: Social Media Policies Database. So far I have 117 a bunch in the database. That’s a very small number, but I think most companies want to keep their policies private. If I am missing any, please leave a comment letting me or send me an email: compliancebuilding@gmail.com. I...
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In-House Counsel Sanctioned for Failing to Monitor the Preservation of Electronic Evidence

Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 7:00 am

In the Swofford v. Eslinger case, the court sanctioned in-house counsel (but not outside counsel) for failure to preserve evidence. The attorney sanctioned was general counsel for a government entity, the Seminal County Sheriff’s Department. What was unique about this case was that the sanctions were brought against in-house counsel for spoliation of evidence...
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Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again)

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

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 for many companies. Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation released...
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