On June 1, 2020, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued an updated version of its “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (the “DOJ Guidance”), available here. The DOJ Guidance is an update to ...

The Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) considers the “adequacy and effectiveness of [a] corporation’s compliance program” as a factor in “conducting an investigation of a corporation, ...

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Giovanni Gallo is the co-CEO of ComplianceLine. Views are the author's own. A new year is finally here, and many of us are making moves that will build our businesses. Some are planning to add clients ...

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The lengths to which a company goes to strengthen its compliance program in the face of a government investigation can make a big difference in the outcome—sometimes to the tune of tens of millions of ...

False Claims Act recoveries and whistleblower numbers point to something deeper than individual enforcement actions. The ...

The urgency for companies to maintain effective compliance programs has never been greater. Civil liability exists for boards of directors that fail to exercise appropriate oversight of compliance, ...

As the regulatory state has expanded, governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) has become a major new field of expertise with its own methods of critical thinking, risk assessment, and ...

The Emerson Leadership Institute is currently redeveloping the certificate program in Corporate Ethics and Compliance Management (CECM). The content from the original course is being divided into ...

The term "compliance" emerged in the '80s but gained notoriety in the mid-2000s. Now, keeping companies on the right track has become one of the biggest challenges for managers, but adopting a ...