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…
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…
A scene is playing out in companies across the globe right now. Innovation teams are moving fast. Procurement is signing contracts. Business units are experimenting with copilots, workflow agents, and…
A scene is playing out in companies across the globe right now. Innovation teams are moving fast. Procurement is signing contracts. Business units are experimenting with copilots, workflow agents, and…
The Justice Department’s first publicly announced resolution under its new Department-wide Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP) offers corporate compliance officers a practical roadmap: disclose early, cooperate fully, remediate…
For years, compliance professionals have argued that ethics matters because it is the right thing to do. That remains true. But the latest data from Ethisphere adds an equally important…
There was a time when boards could treat AI as a management-side innovation issue, something for the technology team, the innovation committee, or perhaps an occasional strategy offsite. That time…
For years, compliance professionals have understood a basic truth about third-party risk: your company can outsource a function, but it cannot outsource accountability. That principle has long applied to distributors,…
