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…
I just delivered to LexisNexis the edits for the next edition of The Compliance Handbook, the single definitive one author volume on the design, creation, implementation and enhancement of a…
It was a sad week for the University of Michigan School of Law and the greater academic and legal world this week. We lost both Yale Kamisar and Terrance Sandalow….
As usual during the Oscar season, Richard Lummis, my co-host on the podcast series 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, and I do a special 4-part podcast series…
Last week I wrote about the first Opinion Release for 2022, appropriately named Opinion Release 22-01. Several persons emailed me about my analysis and discussion, concluding with the point that…
Yesterday, I ended my blog post with a few words about what we call in Texas Creative Lawyerin in the context of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action…
With a name like HeadSpin Inc., you would probably expect nothing less than what has transpired over the past few months with the former Silicon Valley darling and unicorn. According…
Nearly six years ago, Matt Ellis writing in CCI, detailed some of the Foreign Corrupt Practices (FCPA) enforcement actions involving Pemex. He detailed the software company Paradigm BV which had…
Yesterday, I began a series considering how a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and corporate compliance function can help lead a company’s human rights initiatives against such scourges as human trafficking…
The compliance intersection with Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) continues to drive many initiatives in both the ESG realm as well as compliance. One of the key areas is…
Over the past week, I have been considering Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth currently appearing on Apple TV. I have been reviewing the film and exploring my love of all things…
