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What Makes a Great Compliance Leader?
Great leaders exercise emotional intelligence, and they are very adept at understanding their strengths and weaknesses as well as those around them and can assess a situation pretty accurately and...Read more
Fabiana Lacerca-Allen
Chief Compliance Officer, Cipla, USA
Laura Hamm
Sr. Director, Corporate Compliance, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA
Brenda Crabtree
Director, Compliance Auditing and Monitoring, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA
Lisa Mares
Executive Assistant, Compliance, Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc., USA
Amazon v. Donald J. Trump: A Massive Defense Contract Award Tainted by the Appearance of Impropriety
An unconventional U.S. president personally attacking the CEO of Amazon, one of the country’s largest and most impactful companies, is salacious news. Important public policy considerations are implicated when those...Read more
Rodney Sweetland
Vice President and General Counsel, Camris International Inc., USA
Non-Profit Organizations: Protecting Well-Meaning Volunteers From Personal Liability
This foundation pertains to one of the largest, oldest, and most prestigious, international non-profit genealogical organizations in the world, headquartered in the USA (the “Parent Organization”), that has Member organizations...Read more
Charlie Morgan
Principal and General Counsel, HessMorganHouse LLC, USA
Attorney-Client Privilege and the Ethical Duty of Confidentiality for In-house Counsel under US Law
This article discusses the corporate attorney-client privilege as applied in the United States. As in the United States, other common law countries apply the privilege to in-house counsel. The attorney-client...Read more
James McCauley
Ethics Counsel, Virginia State Bar, USA
LGBTQ Diversity & Inclusion in the Legal Profession: The Basics and Beyond
In the past decade, much has changed for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer (LGBTQ). LGBTQ characters are frequently featured in movies, broadcast and cable television...Read more
Wesley Bizzell
Senior Assistant General Counsel and Managing Director of Political Law & Ethics Programs, Altria Client Services , USA
A Primer on International Arbitration for Board Members & Local Counsel
Arbitration is not a new concept, in fact it has been used for centuries, with Plato writing about arbitration amongst the ancient Greeks. As international trade and commerce have grown...Read more
Juliette Passer
General Counsel, International Project Development Group, LLC,, USA
Critique of the U.S. Department of Justice Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
On April 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (the “DOJ”) published updated guidance (the “DOJ Guidance”) on the evaluation of a company’s corporate compliance program (a “CCP”)....Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
Compliance Red Flags: What Companies Should Look Out For in Times of Change
Although we know that compliance is everyone’s responsibility, we also understand that company personnel are focused on their primary roles and responsibilities, and because of this, compliance requirements may not...Read more
Fabiana Lacerca-Allen
Chief Compliance Officer, Cipla, USA
Tatiyana Akers
Associate Director, Compliance, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA
Laura Hamm
Sr. Director, Corporate Compliance, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA
Brenda Crabtree
Director, Compliance Auditing and Monitoring, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA
Consumer Rights as the In-house lawyer’s contribution to Consumer Centricity
Consumer centricity is a business approach that puts the consumer at the center and builds every aspect of a company’s operations (product design, distribution mode, communication strategy, product issue resolution)...Read more
Maria Del Carmen Ordonez-Lopez
Vice-president and Associate General Counsel for Latin America and Canada, Philip Morris International, USA
Collective Action, Collective Reaction: What In-House Lawyers Should Know about European Class Actions
The scorching weather of 2019’s summer has been only one of the heat waves to strike Europe. A wave of collective redress mechanisms has been putting the heat on companies,...Read more
Mary Terzino
Attorney and Consultant, US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, USA