Survey Results Point To Importance Of Compliance Programs The Editor interviews Tim Hedley , a KPMG Partner who leads the firm's National Forensic Services and serves as the Global leader for Fraud Risk Management Services. February 2009 [P. 33]
Tyco: Open Lines Of Communication Foster A Culture Of Compliance The following remarks by Matthew O. Tanzer were taken from a panel entitled "Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2008: When Something (Allegedly) Goes Wrong - From Receipt of a Concern Through Investigation," which was held as part of PLI's Corporate Counsel Institute in June 2008. October 2008 [P. 41]
High Performance With High Integrity - Only The CEO Can Make It Happen The Editor Interviews Ben W. Heineman, Jr. , former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, GE; Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Senior Counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr; and author of High Performance with High Integrity , a publication of Harvard Business Press. July 2008 [P. 01]
Compliance Programs' New Mantra: Value Preservation And Value Creation Editor's Note: Richard H. Girgenti is the National Practice Leader of KPMG LLP's U.S. Forensic Practice, the Partner in Charge of the Forensic Practice for the Americas region, and a member of the Board of Directors of KPMG LLP. During his tenure on the Board, he has chaired the firm's Governance Task Force, Ethics and Compliance, and Nominations Committees. Prior to joining KPMG, Mr. Girgenti was the top criminal justice officer for the State of New York, serving as the state's Director of Criminal Justice and Commissioner of the Division of Criminal Justice Services. He is a veteran prosecutor who handled investigations, trials, and appeals in state and federal courts. June 2008 [P. 01]
The High Price Of Non-Compliance The Editor interviews Adam Warren and Jim Ewing , Managing Directors of Duff & Phelps in the firm's Chicago office. June 2008 [P. 18]
Advising Clients On Greenhouse Gas Emissions' Reporting The Editor Interviews David P. Flynn , Partner, Phillips Lytle LLP, whose practice is in the areas of environmental law, energy and nanotechnology, and is practice team leader for the Firm's Energy and Nanotechnology practice teams. April 2008 [P. 25]
Managing Your Unclaimed Property Risk The Editor interviews Andrew Panaccione , Vice President, Corporation Service Company ("CSC"), to discuss why more companies should be concerned about unclaimed property compliance. April 2008 [P. 50]
Transforming A Legal Icon To Meet Tomorrow’s Needs The Editor interviews Ralph Calistri , Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Client Development, CEO of Martindale-Hubbell. April 2008 [P. 52]
Today's Successful General Counsel: Always Looking Around The Corner These remarks were taken from a panel entitled "The Growing Role of Corporate Counsel," which was held as part of PLI's Corporate Counsel Institute in September 2007. The participants were Louise Parent, General Counsel of American Express Co. and Esta Eiger Stecher, General Counsel of Goldman Sachs. The panel was moderated by Richard Ziegler, formerly General Counsel of 3M Corp and currently a partner at Jenner & Block, who led the discussion through several phases of a hypothetical. March 2008 [P. 33]
Making Sense Of The Subprime Debacle The Editor interviews Rich Girgenti, National Practice Leader for Forensic Services at KPMG LLP.
February 2008 [P. 46]
A Telescopic World-View Of Compliance The Editor interviews Martin J. Weinstein , Partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's Litigation Group and leader of the firm's Compliance & Enforcement Practice Group. February 2008 [P. 47]
AAA, Independent Fact-Finding And The Subprime Crisis The Editor interviews R. William "Bill" Ide , Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Mr. Ide is Chair of the Panel, Independent Fact-Finding Services (IFFS), American Arbitration Association (AAA); a former President of the ABA and the former Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Monsanto Company. January 2008 [P. 19]
Antitrust Trends In The UK And EU The Editor interviews Douglas Nave , partner, and Juliette Enser , associate in the London Office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. January 2008 [P. 42]
Qualcomm, The Subprime & E-Discovery Trends For 2008 The Editor interviews Mary Mack, Technology Counsel, Fios, Inc., who has been regularly blogging on e-discovery issues and the Qualcomm v. Broadcom case in her blog, SoundEvidence, on DiscoveryResources.org. December 2007 [P. 18]
Roundtable: Is Your Global Compliance What It Should Be? Participating in this roundtable are: Jeffrey Carr, Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, FMC Technologies Inc.; Scott Gilbert , Chief Compliance Officer, Marsh & McLennan Companies; Thomas Kim , Senior Vice President, Global Head of Compliance Assurance and Principal Legal Counsel, Reuters; Richard A. Sibery , Partner, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services, Ernst & Young LLP; Linda Winter , Director of Compliance, Armstrong World Industries. The facilitator is Leigh Dance, President of ELD International and one of the conference organizers. September 2007 [P. 24]
Proactive Solutions For FCPA Investigations And Compliance The Editor interviews Jeffrey Harfenist , Managing Director and national practice leader for Fraud and Forensics, Joseph Jaffe , Managing Director, Special Counsel and national practice leader for Global Business Intelligence and Investigations, and Frank Rudewicz , Managing Director, Special Counsel and national practice leader for Crisis and Risk Management, UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc., a forensic, litigation support and valuation services firm. August 2007 [P. 19]
The Key Message: Do It Right! The Editor interviews former Senator Mike DeWine , Of Counsel, and James E. Burke , Partner, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL. Messrs. DeWine and Burke co-chair the firm's Corporate Investigations Group. June 2007 [P. 07]
What To Do Before The Government Knocks The Editor interviews Deborah T. Poritz , Of Counsel, and Barry Gross , Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. April 2007 [P. 26]
New Compliance Tools For The Corporate Secretary The Editor interviews Thomas Charno , Product Manager, Corporate Compliance & Governance; and Christopher Quimby , Senior Product Manager, Corporation Service Company (CSC). April 2007 [P. 35]
Assessing Risk - What A Prospective Director Needs To Know The Editor interviews J. Kenneth Menges, Jr. , head of the firmwide corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. March 2007 [P. 01]
Sentencing A Corporation To Death - A Death Sentence For Self-Regulation? The Editor interviews R. William "Bill" Ide , Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Mr. Ide is Chair, ABA Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege (ABA Task Force), a former President of the ABA and the former Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Monsanto Company. March 2007 [P. 29]
When Congress Comes Knocking . . . The Editor interviews Nicholas W. Allard , Co-Chair, Public Policy Department, Patton Boggs LLP. Mr. Allard's remarks are adapted from presentations that he is making to corporate counsel around the U.S. with the Patton Boggs Public Investigations team, which includes Senator John Breaux, Jonathan Yarowsky and litigation partners Ron Liebman and Robert Luskin. March 2007 [P. 33]
A Brief Q&A On Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance The Editor interviews Laurie Scofield , Managing Director in RSM McGladrey's Risk Management Consulting Practice in New York City. March 2007 [P. 38]
Global Immigration Law: An Update On Compliance For Employment Counsel In light of developing global compliance issues affecting the employment of professional talent, the editor caught up with a few of the partners of one of the world's leading immigration law firms, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP. Austin T. Fragomen , Jr. is a partner with the Firm's New York, NY office; Gwendolyn M. Robosson , is the Managing Partner of the Firm's Iselin, NJ office; Lance Kaplan is the Managing Director of Fragomen Global Immigration Services, LLC, and Jonathan C. Adams also is a Partner with the Firm. November 2006 [P. 21]
A Roundtable Discussion On Compliance Policy Development, Education And Communication In our editorial in the September 2006 issue of MCC, we noted that compliance professionals crave detailed insight into the management practices of their peers to get the most out of their programs. The afternoon of the "Compliance Readiness" seminar on October 26, 2006 will be spent sharing best practices between the attendees and a number of General Counsels and Chief Compliance Officers on a wide range of topics, including those discussed below. We are pleased that Sue Bettman , Senior Vice President and General Counsel, RR Donnelly, and Martin Grant , Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, are willing to share some of their thoughts prior to the event with the help of our moderators, James Ewing and Jerry Kral , Directors, Legal Management and Compliance Consulting, Duff & Phelps, LLC. To hear more detailed insights on these and other topics, please plan to attend the October 26th conference. Thanks again to James Ewing and Jerry Kral for moderating this roundtable. October 2006 [P. 33]
Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Planning & Compliance Edited by Diane E. Ambler , Lorraine Massaro and Kristen L. Stewart , Partners, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP Reviewed by Al Driver, Editor The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel October 2006 [P. 34]
Sills Cummis' Peter Verniero On The Compliance Discussion The Editor interviews the Hon. Peter G. Verniero , Of Counsel, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C. The views and opinions expressed in the interview are those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect those of Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C. September 2006 [P. 43]
Avoiding Whistleblower Complaints The Editor is fortunate to report on a discussion with David R. Jimenez , Associate General Counsel and Vice President of Employee Relations, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.; and Rebecca E. White , Managing Director and Head of the Employment Law Group, UBS Investment Bank who participated in the web program entitled Understanding Developments In Whistleblower Law 3 Years After Sarbanes-Oxley 2006 recorded in January 2006 by the Practising Law Institute. For more information about the program, visit www.pli.edu. August 2006 [P. 21]
Achieving Compliance Objectives The Editor interviews Alice Lawrence , Principal at Jordan Lawrence, and Therese Paul , Vice President and Counsel for Fifth Third Bank. June 2006 [P. 34]
Partnering Adds Value To Compliance Training The Editor interviews John M. Spinnato , Vice President and General Counsel, Pharmaceutical Operations, sanofi-aventis USA LLC, and Steven A. Lauer , Director, Integrity Research, Integrity Interactive Corporation. June 2006 [P. 37]
Experts Identify The Characteristics Of Well-Run Compliance Programs The Editor is fortunate to report on a discussion among Gilen Chan , Director of Ethics, Citigroup Inc., and Doug Lankler , Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Pfizer Inc., who participated in the web program entitled Corporate Compliance Institute 2005 recorded on June 2005 by the Practising Law Institute. For more information about the program, visit www.pli.edu. June 2006 [P. 45]
Preserving The Privilege Is Essential For Corporate Counsels' Compliance Role The Editor interviews William "Bill" Ide , Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, past president of the American Bar Association, former General Counsel of Monsanto Company and chair of the ABA Task Force On The Attorney-Client Privilege. November 2005 [P. 39,49]
MCI: Embedding A Compliance Culture The Editor interviews Anastasia "Stasia" Kelly , Executive Vice President and General Counsel; Carol Ann Petren , Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel and William Single, IV , Vice President Compliance, all of MCI Inc. September 2005 [P. 01,54,55]
Project: Corporate Counsel Part I (Unintended Consequences) - Corporate Counsel Roundtable: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - Its Many Lives Homer E. Moyer, Jr. , Senior Partner at Miller & Chevalier, Chartered and former General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, whose article on FCPA Enforcement Issues was featured in the June issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Speaks With Inside Counsel, Howard Weissman , Associate General Counsel-International of Lockheed Martin Corporation, Valli Baldassano , Vice President of Global Compliance, Schering-Plough Corporation, and William B. Lytton , Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Tyco International Ltd. July 2005 [P. 51,52]
Project: Corporate Counsel - Law Firms State of the Art Compliance Training Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP recently conducted one of a series of client seminars devoted to compliance. The seminar was led by Robert T. Joseph , a partner in the Firm. Mr. Joseph interviews fellow partners Martin R. Castro , Mindy H. Chapman and Gary Senner on the subject of training. Effective training has been recognized as a major component of a first-rate compliance program. Indeed, compliance training, extending to all levels of the organization, is required under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations as an element of an effective compliance program. According to the Guidelines, the training must include communication via practical mechanisms of an organization's compliance standards and procedures, the compliance program, and appropriate information concerning individual respective roles and responsibilities. In addition to employees and agents, the appropriate training must extend to members of the governing authority and the organization's leadership. June 2005 [P. 52]
Project: Corporate Counsel - Law Firms Avoiding Surprises In Today's Post-Enron Climate The Editor interviews David J. Sheehan, Chairman of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C. He is a trial attorney with over 30 years of experience in intellectual property matters and complex product liability cases, with a heavy emphasis in the pharmaceutical field. He can be reached at (212) 649-4701. May 2005 [P. 40]
Project: Corporate Counsel - Corporate Counsel Corporate Counsel Tackle The Challenges Of Global Compliance The Editor is fortunate to report on a discussion with Gabe Shawn Varges, Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Corporate Responsibility, Zurich Financial Services , and Jane L. Wexton, Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel, GE Consumer Finance, who participated in the web program entitled Corporate Compliance Institute 2004 and recorded June, 2004 by the Practising Law Institute. For more information about the program Compliance Without Borders, visit www.pli.edu. The views here and in such program are expressed in a personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect those of their employers. May 2005 [P. 45,72]
Navigating The Still Murky Post-Sarbanes-Oxley World: A Roadmap For Corporate Counsel The Editor interviews Arlene Elgart Mirsky , Member, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., Co-Chair of the Firm's Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice Group and Member of its Corporate, Securities and Banking Department. [Editor's Note] Ms. Mirsky is both the Conference Co-Chair and Moderator of the Panel "Corporate Governance - Who's in Charge" at the January 27 Seminar "Corporate Governance and Compliance Today and Tomorrow - What Corporate Law Departments Need to Know" sponsored by the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association in conjunction with Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C. and Deloitte & Touche LLP. The purpose of this interview is to focus on the challenges facing corporate counsel in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley environment. January 2005 [P. 30]
In-House Counsel's Role In Tailoring Compliance Programs To Their
Companies' Needs The Editor interviews Charles F. Raeburn , Senior
Corporate Counsel, Pfizer Inc., and Jean K. FitzSimon , General
Counsel and Principal, Bridge Associates LLC. They will be panelists at the
program on Corporate Governance and Compliance Today and Tomorrow: What
Corporate Law Departments Need to Know to be held on January 27 in Livingston,
New Jersey. Sponsors are the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association, Sills
Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., Deloitte & Touche LLP, and associate
sponsors are PLI-Corpedia, Corporation Service Company (CSC) and Kelly Law
Institute. For more information about the program, contact Jennifer
Buneta at jbuneta@sillscummis.com . To read articles about
corporate governance in past issues of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, visit
www.metrocorpcounsel.com .
January 2005 [P. 36]
Peter G. Verniero: Bringing Multiple Talents To Corporate Investigations The Editor interviews Peter G. Verniero , Of Counsel, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., co-chair of that firm's corporate investigations and business crimes practice group and chair of its appellate practice group, former associate justice, Supreme Court of New Jersey. December 2004 [P. 01,68]
General Counsel Roundtable: Coping With Compliance Challenges In The Post-Scandal World The Moderator, Edgar H. Sims, Jr. , Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, raised the following questions with Andrew Hendry , Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary, Colgate-Palmolive Company; Ernest Patrikis , Senior Vice President and General Counsel, American International Group, Inc., Thomas Sabatino , Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Schering-Plough Corporation, and Michael Shepherd , Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, The Bank of New York. October 2004 [P. 30,55,64,65]
Spotlight On The Audit Committee The Editor interviews Gerald S. Backman , Retired Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. June 2004 [P. 20]
U.S. Sentencing Commission Amends Corporate Guidelines - What Do The Changes Mean For You? The Editor sat down with Cozen O'Connor's Barry Boss to find out what these recent changes mean for corporate counsel and a company's day-to-day operations. Mr. Boss, a member of the firm's Washington, DC office, co-chaired the United States Sentencing Commission's Practitioners' Advisory Group. He concentrates his practice in complex criminal matters and white-collar crime. He served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Washington, DC between 1995 and 2000. Questions about this article can be addressed to Mr. Boss at bboss@cozen.com or (202) 912-4818. June 2004 [P. 33]
Compliance Non-Audit Services And Financial Relationships The following is a summary of chapter 14, Non-Audit Services and Financial Relationships, from The Sarbanes-Oxley Deskbook, by John T. Bostelman, Sullivan and Cromwell LLP, New York City. Copyright 2004 by Practising Law Institute. June 2004 [P. 40,41,58]