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This deck on litigation discovery is from a joint presentation I gave to the America Bar Association with Judge Patrick Hanna, and Diane Quick. The first question about discovery is […]

The best way to manage recalls and other product safety and compliance crises is to avoid them. Of course, there will always be some things that remain outside of your […]

From the SEC Website, annual prosecutions from 2010 through the present (2017).. Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) continues to be a high priority area for [...]

Welcome to our three parts approach to  product safety and regulatory compliance. (1) Establish a system of people processes and technology to address product safety and regulatory compliance.  [...]

This is the ONLY event bringing together commercial insurance innovators creating digital solutions to address emerging risks & requirements of enterprise customers.

Is it necessarily true that power [always] corrupts and absolute power [always] corrupts absolutely? There may be some exceptions, but it happens often enough so that any business that wants […]

Previous posts addressed the importance of aligning value proposition and employee incentives. In a nutshell, if you tell employees to do X, but pay them to do Y, don’t be […]

  Image from “Moshidora” (2009), by Natsumi Iwasaki (English title “What if a high school baseball manager read Drucker’s Management”). Moshidora follows protagonist Minami Kawashima as she [...]

  I don’t know about you, but after this crazy week of ignition issues, peanut butter perp walk, and emissions omissions, I’m about up to here with schadenfreude. It is time to [...]

Is it necessarily true that power [always] corrupts and absolute power [always] corrupts absolutely? There may be some exceptions, but it happens often enough so that any business that wants […]

Organizations can develop inertia for many reasons. In the same way, projects within an organization tend to develop increasing inertia as they move closer to completion. In the case of […]

An effective anti-competitive behavior compliance program should expand and improve competition law compliance through business policies, procedures, controls and training designed to satisfy [...]

Litigation and regulatory investigations aren’t “black swan” events. They’re a cost of doing business. How much it costs the business is impacted by how well a business [...]

  It’s no secret, designing, implementing and training a large scale global compliance program is a massive undertaking. It requires commitment, focus, and resources. When the CEO and [...]

This highly useful 150-page resource guide published in late 2012 is the fruit of cooperation between the Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission, with contributions from the [...]

The U.S. Government generates a substantial volume of high-quality work product. Your tax dollars are particularly hard at work in this resource from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which weighs [...]

  This was the first international anti-corruption convention.

The Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) consists of most of Western Europe, a few Eastern European countries, North America, Japan, Korea, and a few other states. It [...]

This was the first international convention to combat bribery of public officials.