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…
Yesterday, I wrote about a Declination issued by the Department of Justice issued a Declination to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a nonprofit organization working with NASA on advanced scientific…
In the fast-moving world of enforcement actions and corporate misconduct, we rarely get an actual “bottle episode” of compliance—a neatly wrapped case that functions almost like a compliance case study…
We are at the end of this week’s exploration of how middle managers can elevate your organization’s compliance regime. While I named the week’s series Muddle in the Middle, I…
We continue exploring how a corporate compliance function can use middle managers to make compliance more effective. This is perhaps the most dynamic era for business, with sweeping reengineering, digitization,…
We continue our exploration of the role of middle managers in compliance. In compliance, we often focus heavily on top executives’ tone at the top and frontline employees’ behaviors at…
We continue our exploration of middle managers as a key to effective compliance. Middle managers often find themselves unfairly characterized and depicted as bottlenecks or bureaucratic hurdles, and their essential…
Is there confusion within your company, especially regarding compliance issues and your SpeakUp/ListenUp culture? As a compliance professional, what tools can you bring to your organization’s middle managers? This week,…
As compliance professionals, we are at a turning point. We either embrace the opportunity that Trump has presented us, or our professionals will be consigned to an organization’s technical back…
Today, most compliance professionals deal with a dynamic environment where questions and potential issues do not wait conveniently for office hours. Whether you oversee a global team operating in multiple…
In today’s high-velocity business world, checking a compliance box once a year is as useful as lighting a football stadium with a candle. The 2025 compliance function is no longer…
