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 In our first Compliance Week TV video we hear from Frank Diana, executive vice president of enherent Corporation, who discusses the challenges involved in information management.
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Webcasts of the Week

 Defining and Executing Systematic, Risk-Based Third-Party Due Diligence for FCPA Compliance
Sponsored by The Steele Foundation

Help Wanted: Ad of the Week

 Compliance Education & Communications Mgr.
Submitted by Oracle

Event of the Week

 Corporate Governance Programs
Courtesy of Harvard Business School

Thought Leadership of the Week

Access Management: Efficiency, Confidence, Control
Courtesy of SAP

The Resource Exchange

Code of Conduct
Submitted by BP

Sample Risk Acceptance Request
Submitted by Circuit City

Featured Databases

Whistleblower Guidelines
Search Whistleblower Policies, Contract Options

Class-Action Filings
Download Text of Class-Action Complaints

GRC Illustrated Series

 Improving GRC by Visualizing Your Data
The 24th Installment in This Exclusive Series
Compliance Week 2009--Fourth Annual Conference for Corporate Financial, Legal, Risk, Audit & Compliance Executives, June 3-5, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Dr. William D. Lutz

Director, 21st Century Disclosure Initiative
Securities and Exchange Commission

Bill Lutz Bill Lutz is director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's 21st Century Disclosure Initiative, established by Chairman Christopher Cox in June 2008 to fundamentally rethink financial disclosure. In January 2009, the Initiative produced a report describing a modernized disclosure system and recommending future Commission action for a transition to the new system.

Lutz is a Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and a Doctor of Law degree. An expert on plain English, Lutz helped prepare the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Plain English Handbook in 1998. He has also worked with numerous corporations and government agencies on language and plain language in legal proceedings.

A well-published expert, Lutz was the editor of the Quarterly Review of Doublespeak and is the author or co-author of seventeen books, including Doublespeak Defined; The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore; Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living; and The Cambridge Thesaurus of American English. His articles on language have appeared in numerous publications.