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Compliance Program Best Practices

Note from Duff & Phelps: We are happy to announce that last month's Compliance Readiness Seminar, co-sponsored by Duff & Phelps and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP was a great success. The sold-out event attracted compliance professionals from all over the Northeast, and...

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Data Privacy - How Improved Governance And Compliance Pays Off

Editor: In the past few years companies and other organizations have made headlines due to breaches in data privacy. What has caused this issue to come to the forefront? Kirtley: Two primary factors predominate: the first is that the accelerating deployment of technology and the evolution of...

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A Roundtable Discussion On Compliance Policy Development, Education And Communication

Moderator: What are the key points you incorporate when developing compliance policy? How are new policies launched within your organization? Bettman: With any company policy, and especially for compliance policies, our number one objective is clarity. We want our employees to read the policy and...

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The Devil Is In The Details of Compliance: Get Down To Brass Tacks At The October 26 Compliance Readiness Seminar

In a 2006 survey conducted by The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, its corporate counsel readers ranked compliance second among many subjects that are relevant to their work. Compliance training programs and compliance systems ranked second in importance among the many services, tools and...

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Compliance Functions - Leadership, People, Process & Technology

In the July 2005 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, we described a compliance framework that a number of companies have successfully implemented. The framework defines a systematic, end-to-end approach to compliance, and can be adopted by any company irrespective of industry. Of course,...

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Partnering: Formulas For Success

Moderator: William, what were the motivating factors that led you to create a partnering program? When did you introduce the program, and how has it evolved over time? Von Hoene: Exelon developed its partnering program because we wanted to consolidate our legal work with a limited number of...

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Leveraging Your ITInvestments: Thinking Like An Executive

Legal departments now have the ability to implement systems that deliver real-time information. These new tools, combined with existing legal data repositories, are a rich source of actionable information. The enhanced capabilities of these systems will enable General Counsel to proactively use...

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