Anti-bribery enforcement is a real risk
I have sometimes gotten a sense of annoyance from executives — even the ones who are fairly ethically oriented — when it comes to the specter of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: the country’s primary statute to combat international bribery. The law can hold a US company culpable for the actions of its people overseas, […]
Ethics in ethics training
Interesting appellate decision spotted by lawyer Howard J. Susser of Boston’s Burns & Levinson LLP: The copyright case is a cautionary tale to compliance trainers who build their course materials by cutting, pasting, borrowing, and lightly paraphrasing from somebody else’s course, like maybe from a PowerPoint made available at a conference or from a course […]