The folks at ALM are producing an online version of their Corporate Counsel’s annual General Counsel Conferences. I’m stepping in to fill a lat minute vacancy for one session: Social Media Policies: Crafting a Uniform Policy Across your Organization and Enforcing It. I’ll be joining Valerie L. Boccadoro, Director and Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at … Read more »
New York Stock Exchange and Corporate Governance
Last week, the NYSE Euronext released the final report of the NYSE–sponsored Commission on Corporate Governance. The report identified 10 core governance principles. They cover the scope of the board’s authority, management’s responsibility for governance and the relationship between shareholders’ trading activities, voting decisions and governance. The Commission on Corporate Governance was established in the … Read more »
Katy Perry and Compliance
Katy Perry just wanted to play dress-up. Elmo ran away. Just like Elmo, Sesame Street decided they wanted to get away from Ms. Perry. Her outfit showed too much cleavage. It’s not the first time Sesame Street has pulled a video. They pulled a video with Chris Brown when he was accused of domestic violence. … Read more »
100 Best Legal Blogs
The ABA Journal is compiling its annual list of 100 best legal blogs (They use “blawgs.” I hate that term.) They would like your advice on which legal blogs you think they should include. Use the Blawg 100 Amici form to tell the ABA Journal about a legal blog that you read regularly and think … Read more »
Compliance Bits and Pieces for September 24
Here are recent compliance related stories from the past week: In case you missed it: Its Official: Recession Ended June 2009 by Barry Ritholtz in The Big Picture The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in … Read more »
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance
The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) publishes the Directorship 100. They surveyed 15,000 public company directors and executives to form the final 100 honorees. I was interested to see how they broke them into groups: Regulators and Rule Makers Directors CEOs Governance Policy Makers Attorneys Investors Auditors Recruiters Compensators D&O Insurers, Governance Advisors Corporate … Read more »
Social Networking Malware as Affinity Fraud
Panda Security released its first annual Social Media Risk Index for small- and medium-sized businesses. They surveyed 315 US SMBs with up to 1,000 employees during the month of July. 33 percent of these companies had experienced a malware or virus infection from social networks 23 percent citing employee privacy violations resulting in the loss … Read more »
The SEC’s Busy Rule-Making Agenda
In many instances, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act merely set a framework for financial reform and left much of the heavy lifting to the financial regulatory agencies. The SEC published their agenda for the implementation of Dodd-Frank. It is a long list. Compliance leaders are going to very busy keeping track … Read more »
Corruption Currents: The Wall Street Journal’s New Corruption Blog
“Corruption Currents, the Wall Street Journal’s corruption blog, will dig into the ever-present and ever-changing world of corporate corruption. It will be a source of news, analysis and commentary for those who earn a living by finding corruption or by avoiding it.” Apparently corruption has become such a big topic that the Wall Street Journal … Read more »
Adequate Procedures to Prevent Bribery in the UK
On 14 September 2010, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice issued its Consultation Paper on what might be “adequate procedures” prevent bribery. Under section 9 of the Bribery Act, the only defense against criminal liability for a commercial organization which has “failed to prevent bribery” is that the organization had adequate procedures” to prevent bribery. … Read more »