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Pushing Back on Piling On: Heaping regulatory penalties on businesses that plead guilty may not be the answer
“A slap-on-the-wrist culture.” This is how Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), speaking publicly this spring, characterized recent decisions by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators not to impose the most severe regulatory penalties...
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Ad Cops After Four Decades: Report finds self-regulation works, but popularity may lead to change
MCC: On April 15, a working group associated with the ABA released a report* evaluating the National Advertising Division (NAD) and the state of advertising self-regulation in the U.S. You led the group in these efforts. Please tell us why and how the project got off the ground. Villafranco:...
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Directors Sailing in Uncharted Regulatory Waters: Top 10 government enforcement priorities for 2015
Hot Topics in Legal/Regulatory Corporate directors are subject to increasing scrutiny and pressure from regulators to ensure that they are fulfilling their responsibility to provide effective oversight of their company’s management of regulatory risk. The challenge that directors face...
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