The New York City Bar presents Corporate Compliance 2012: Best Practices and Recent Developments on Tuesday, February 28, at the New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street in New York City.

It starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends at noon.

This program will review important recent legal developments -- both in the U.S. and abroad -- regarding compliance and ethics (C&E) programs. Among the areas to be addressed will be how to conduct C&E risk assessments; responses to the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act; anti-corruption compliance -- law and practice; C&E efforts to address conflicts of interest; independence expectations regarding C&E officers; and C&E programs for universities.

The speakers are Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Kaplan & Walker, LLP: Andrea Bonime-Blanc, senior vice president, Global Corporate Responsibility & Risk Management, Verint Systems Inc.; Robert F. Roach, chief compliance officer, Office of Compliance and Risk Management, New York University; and John D. Soriano, corporate vice president and chief compliance officer, Celgene Corporation.

To register for the event visit www.nycbar.org or call (212) 382-6663.