Leadership Lessons From The West Wing — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Episode 342 -- How to Conduct an Internal Compliance Site Visit and Review
Episode 331- NAVEX State of Risk and Compliance Programs
FCPA Compliance Report: Erica Salmon Byrne on Closing The Speak Up Gap
Compliance Lessons from Dating in Your 50s
What's the Tea in L&E? "Passive" Harassment: When Does Workplace Decor Contribute to a Hostile Environment?
Episode 327 -- Another Look at the Importance of Corporate Culture
In Brief: Election Law & Government Ethics Unpacked: National Convention Guidance
Compliance into the Weeds: Scathing Report on Culture at The FDIC
Culture Crafters - Turning Around a Toxic Culture: Part 5 - Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement of Culture
FCPA Compliance Report: How Boeing Can Make a Cultural Comeback
Episode 318 -- LRN's Recent Study Underscores Importance of Ethical Culture and Values-Based Leadership
Navigating Employment and Separation Agreements: Lessons From Al Pacino's Serpico — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Overcoming Internal Barriers to Compliance Success
Episode 297 -- Susan Divers on LRN's 2023 Program Effectiveness Report
DE Talk | From Human “Doing” to Human “Being”: Transforming to Own Your 50
Branding Your Compliance Program
Hear Lisa Monaco's Announcement of M&A Leniency Policy
Compliance Programs Part 1: What is a Compliance Program and Why do Businesses Need One?
Episode 285 -- The Importance of a Consequence Management System
The DOJ’s message from the 2024 ECCP is clear: if companies want to maintain credibility, mitigate risks, and avoid scrutiny, they must embrace data analytics to support and document their compliance efforts. This evolution...more
In the DOJ’s 2024 update to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (2024 ECCP), compliance professionals face new expectations that could reshape how we approach compliance programs. In this latest update, the DOJ...more
On September 23, 2024, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri announced much-anticipated revisions to the US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (Revised ECCP)...more
The 2022 Monaco Memo emphasized the basic point that the key to every company is culture. The bottom line is that corporate culture matters and corporate culture that fails to hold individuals accountable, or fails to invest...more
In her remarks to the American Bar Association’s National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco outlined the forthcoming whistleblower program that seeks to fill in the gaps of existing...more
DOJ and Boeing have entered into a proposed plea agreement that will require judicial scrutiny and determinations of the public interest and the victims’ rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3771 [“CVRA”]. ...more
In probably a move that will surprise no one, the families of the victims of the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes have objected to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announced approach to a monitorship for Boeing. Having been so...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently in a conundrum over its Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) for the Boeing 737 Max crashes. Understanding the implications of the DOJ’s upcoming decision on whether to prosecute...more
In the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog this week, I will explore corporate culture from various angles. Since at least October 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has made corporate culture part of its review for any...more
Why should you audit your culture? In doing so, a compliance professional can utilize a comprehensive approach designed to evaluate various aspects of a company’s culture, including ethics, engagement, accountability, and...more
There were recently two significant speeches by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials at the American Bar Association National Institute on White Collar Crime. The first was by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco....more
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the creation of a new U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) Whistleblower Rewards Program at the 39th Annual ABA White Collar National Institute in San Francisco...more
At last week’s ABA National White Collar Crime Institute, the leadership of the Department of Justice (the DOJ or the Department), including Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, made clear...more
DOJ unveils a new whistleblower incentive program to complement the Department’s continued efforts to encourage self-reporting of criminal violations. On Thursday, March 7, 2024, US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco...more
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered keynote remarks March 7 at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime. Emphasizing the need for a culture of compliance, Monaco highlighted...more
On October 4, 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced a new "safe harbor" policy for voluntary self-disclosures in the context of mergers and acquisitions, whereby the Department of Justice will decline to...more
Last week, Albemarle Corporation (Albemarle), agreed to pay more than $218 million to resolve investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into violations of the...more
Companies have to demand a new focus from their CEOs, senior executives and legal compliance team in response to the new DOJ and regulatory initiatives. These steps are not just suggestions nor items that can be prioritized...more
As a company’s most valuable intangible asset, we have witnessed the wreckage of companies that have fallen victim to reputational damage, scandal and ultimately the wasteland of a rotten corporate culture. In these...more
Among the most critical developments companies and their counsel should understand in 2023 is that federal officials will now scrutinize the overall state of your compliance program when they consider potential criminal...more
The Justice Department continues to push on white collar corporate enforcement, and the intersection of national security sanctions and export controls with corporate criminal enforcement. Last week, Lisa Monaco, DOJ’s...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced several new policies and programs aimed at incentivizing corporate compliance. These programs underscore the need for companies to investigate, mitigate and resolve...more
This is not your typical FCPA enforcement action Lessons Learned column. Instead, Ericsson’s breach of its DPA presents a laundry list of internal investigation errors – as a practitioner in this area, this is the nightmare...more
Even at companies with separate legal and compliance departments, Department of Justice-enforced compliance is a key concern for in-house counsel. Those pressures only will increase in the near future and are rapidly...more