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 have long been fascinated by the Greek myths around the House of Atreus. It is the most cursed House in all Greek myth. I have also long wanted to…
As many of my readers know, I am a huge fan of the Classic Universal Picture Movie Monsters, focusing on the period from 1931 to the mid-1950s. In October, I…
In a recent article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, author Brian Elliot says that we are living in what he calls The Burnout Age. Across industries and professions, exhaustion has…
The New York Times recently ran an article on the creation of the play Les Misérables. When the show premiered at London’s Barbican Theatre in 1985, the creative team celebrated…
Exceptional boards do not happen by accident. They are the result of disciplined, emotionally intelligent, and strategically minded leadership —the kind that transforms oversight from a duty into an engine…
1, 2, 3, 4. While that sequence is well known, it is also one of the greatest rock n’ roll count-ins. It opens the John Lodge-written song “Ride My See…
As many of my readers know, I am a huge fan of the Classic Universal Picture Movie Monsters, focusing on the period from 1931 to the mid-1950s. In October, I…
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went to Houston to see the Savanah Bananas. Last week, I wrote a blog post about a night of BananaBall and…
In the not-so-distant past, corporate compliance programs relied on checklists, policies, and manual monitoring. The work was often reactive, responding to investigations, answering hotline calls, or conducting after-the-fact audits. But…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long recognized that trying Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases before juries can be a challenging endeavor. Unlike fraud schemes that hit close…
