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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...
Read MoreData 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreCompliance 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,...
Read MorePartnering: 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...
Read MoreLeveraging 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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