Welcome to The Woody Report, where Washington & Lee School of Law Associate Professor Karen Woody and host Tom Fox discuss issues on white collar crime, compliance issues, international corruption, securities and accounting fraud, and internal corporate…
In too many organizations, “AI compliance” is treated like a speed bump. Something to route around, manage after launch, or outsource to a vendor deck and a policy that nobody…
If you run a compliance program in 2026, you have a new operational reality: state legislatures are no longer waiting on federal agencies to define the rules of the road…
For years, compliance leaders have worked under a simple reality: if the government learns about a problem from someone else first, you have already lost leverage. The Southern District of…
If you work in compliance, you know the easiest slogan in the world is “we follow the law.” It is also one of the most dangerous. The law is a…
If you want to see how an FCPA case gets built in real time, you could do a lot worse than studying what came out at trial in the Hobson…
To the surprise of absolutely no one, former Corsa Coal executive Charles ‘Hunter’ Hobson was found guilty last week for FCPA violations. As most readers of this blog know, I…
There was a time when the risk of artificial intelligence could be discussed as a forward-looking innovation issue. That time has passed. AI governance now sits squarely at the intersection…
Corporate compliance professionals spend a lot of time talking about controls, training, third parties, and investigations. Yet the hard truth is that the most important control environment sits above all…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future-state technology risk. It is a current-state governance issue. If AI is being deployed inside governance, risk, and compliance functions, then it is already…
There are court rulings that quietly shape doctrine, and others that detonate assumptions. The recent decision of Judge Jed Rakoff from the Southern District of New York in United States…
