Compliance And Ethics

To ensure that multinational corporations operate ethically, in-house counsel should pay heed to a number of guidelines, specifically the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This article reviews the scope of the Guiding Principles, their potential implications, and how to put these recommendations into action.

This column discusses the consequences of government charges against in-house counsel and a few ideas on how to stay out of trouble.

This article uses the analogy of repairing a garage door malfunction to discuss how ethics and compliance professionals should approach their work. Like a garage door, within an organization, there are innumerable moving parts, unseen and complex interactions, and a virtually infinite number of failure modes — each of which may require custom-made remedies when they’re not working properly.