The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
We take the easy way out when we prefer no-discretion policies simply because they are easier for mediocre managers to administer and mediocre employees to follow.
Too often, with the best of intentions, we strive to put so many controls on our company’s business activities that we either constipate routine, lawful business activities, or halt them all together.
This article provides some suggestions on how leaders can establish an effective tone at the top, and leverage that tone to instill a strong culture of compliance.
Because many of the typical techniques and procedures included in the conventional oversight of compliance risk fall short, legal department leaders are turning to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) efforts that include greatly expanded risk assessments.
This article will review the most prominent global supply chain transparency laws and regulations, discuss how companies can implement robust compliance programs, examine the pitfalls that can accompany supply chain policies and disclosures, and describe how to deal with problems that arise.
In-house counsel should understand how the FTC influences cybersecurity standards globally and why the FTC v. Wyndham decision will impact the breadth of the FTC’s policing authority in the future.
This article attempts to provide in-house counsel with a high-level approach to creating and designing a BYOD policy, while balancing that approach with an update from a sampling of current international law.