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…
Artificial intelligence may look like a technology story on the surface, but beneath that surface lies a governance reality every board and Chief Compliance Officer must confront. AI systems are…
For boards and Chief Compliance Officers, AI governance does not begin with the model. It begins with oversight, accountability, and the discipline to define who owns risk, who makes decisions,…
AI is not simply a technology deployment question. It is a corporate governance challenge that requires board attention, compliance discipline, and operational oversight. For Chief Compliance Officers and board members,…
Brené Brown’s blunt warning about toxic leadership is really a compliance warning: when fear, cruelty, and intimidation become normalized management tools, misconduct risk rises, speak-up culture collapses, and the compliance…
It is with no small amount of pride that I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book, The Game Is Afoot in Compliance. The book was sponsored…
There is a quiet but serious problem developing in boardrooms around AI. Directors are hearing about innovation. They are hearing about productivity gains. They are hearing about competitive pressure, transformation,…
Under the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) updated Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP), the practical bargain is now unmistakable. A company can earn extraordinary leniency, including a Declination, but…
The corporate resolution in Balt received the headlines. The individual Indictment tells the deeper compliance story. In the charges against David Ferrera and Marc Tilman, prosecutors laid out a familiar…
The Balt matter is one of the clearest recent examples of coordinated cross-border anti-corruption enforcement. When you compare the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Declination with the French resolution overseen…
There is a hard truth about AI governance that too many companies are still avoiding: the first people to spot an AI problem are usually not board members, not senior…
