Corporate counsel are in an excellent position to focus the corporate client's attention on how its actions can affect public attitudes that can influence a corporation's success or failure, whether it be in the marketplace or in the courts or ...

Articles - 2004-08-01 00:00

our supporting law firms and legal service providers to support five compliance readiness programs, ... publish Special Reports on Compliance Readiness, each packed with such ammunition. All our compliance readiness articles are archived on our website. Equipping General Counsel To Serve ...

Articles - 2007-04-01 00:00

doesn't, and where to begin. The Compliance Readiness Seminar at the University Club in New York City ...

Articles - 2006-09-01 00:00

Compliance programs matter today. As company counsel you deal with the reality of tougher regulatory scrutiny and harsher enforcement actions against businesses, all in the context of such new regulatory regimes as Sarbanes Oxley. Yet, at the same ti ...

Articles - 2005-08-01 00:00

Participating in this Roundtable are: Focusing on compliance programs is Jack Holleran, who is a leader in Ernst & Young's Corporate Compliance Advisory Services practice. He advises clients on identifying and prioritizing co ...

Articles - 2008-01-01 00:00

I read with great interest the cover interview of Governor Thornburgh in last month's issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel , especially the six significant issues he identified during the WorldCom investigation. As MCI's General C ...

Articles - 2006-10-01 00:00

Editor: As examiners in the WorldCom bankruptcy proceedings, you and Michael Missal of K&LNG had an opportunity to observe how the breakdown of the legal function of that company contributed to its demise. What lessons did WorldCom teach with respe ...

Articles - 2006-09-01 00:00

Editor: Mr. Feig, would you tell our readers something about your career? Feig: I began my career in the 1980s with a large New York firm in a practice dedicated to counseling and litigating in the then-prevalent field of ...

Articles - 2005-09-01 00:00

Editor: Would each of you tell us about your career experience? Basri: I have been the Executive Director of ACC - New York for the past ten years. I teach a course on in-house lawyering at the University of Pennsylvania Law School - the cou ...

Articles - 2005-09-01 00:00

Congress, over the years, has conferred on our country at least four separate obstruction of justice criminal statutes that apply to acts of destroying internal corporate documents. 1 The most recent of these statutes - 18 U.S.C. §1519, ...

Articles - 2005-09-01 00:00