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More on conflicts of interest disclosure

“Culture trumps compliance,” the old saying goes. But it still worth being reminded of it, particularly in the conflict of interest area, where the effect of culture may be less manifest than it is for various other types of misconduct (like harassment). The latest contribution to this body of knowledge […]

Expanding Compliance Liability for Directors?

A post a few weeks ago discussed the issuance of an important recent judicial decision in Delaware regarding board liability for compliance failures, and specifically the fact that the claim against the directors had survived a motion to dismiss.  Given how few decisions  support claims such as this – what are […]

The big compliance news of 2019

In my latest column in Compliance & Ethics Professional I discuss the Department of Justice’s new policy of rewarding antitrust compliance programs. I hope you find it interesting.

CECO reporting relationships

Here is a just-published article from Compliance Week on compliance & ethics officer reporting relationships. I hope you find it useful.

Come to the Advanced Compliance & Ethics Workshop

I am honored to have been selected to chair the Practising Law Institute’s Advanced Compliance & Ethics Workshop in NYC on October 28 and 29. Information about program topics and our stellar faculty is available here. I hope to see you then and there.

Conflicts of interest: why we fight

The current attention to President Trump’s using his official position to bring business to his properties – discussed here – has drawn national (and even global) focus on the area of conflicts of interest. It is thus an opportune time for the COI Blog to review some basic principles. First, as Justice Louis […]

See you at SCCE?

Later this month I’ll be speaking at the SCCE  18th annual Compliance & Ethics Institute in National Harbor Maryland.  I’ll be presenting in sessions on 100 + Years of Business Ethics: Learn About the Future from Masters of the Profession (together with my long-time colleagues Steve Priest, Carrie Penman and Ed Petry – […]

Free webinar on risk assessment

On September 11 at 1 Eastern I’ll be presenting a free webinar  on best practices in compliance and ethics risk assessment. The webinar is  sponsored by Syntrio  and my co-presenter will be  Jason Lunday. He and I hope you can attend.

How deep is the ocean? The latest on Trump’s conflicts of interest

In a report on President Trump’s conflict of interest published last week, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics  in Washington  (CREW)  noted that it had “tallied 2,310 conflicts resulting from President Trump’s decision to retain his business interests.” Highlights include the following: – The president has visited his properties 362 […]

What is in a name?

A recent letter to the editor of Nature argues: Transparency about competing interests is essential when reporting scientific data. However, use of the term ‘conflict of interests’ for such declarations can be misleading in some biomedical papers. A genuine example of a conflict of interest is when academic researchers are financially […]