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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

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Whistleblower Guidelines
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GRC Illustrated Series

 Improving GRC by Visualizing Your Data
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Compliance Week 2009--Fourth Annual Conference for Corporate Financial, Legal, Risk, Audit & Compliance Executives, June 3-5, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Neal J. Stephens

Partner
Cooley Godward Kronish

Neal Stephens Neal J. Stephens is a partner in the Litigation department at Cooley Godward Kronish, and is resident in the Palo Alto Office.

Mr. Stephens is a trial lawyer who specializes in white collar criminal defense and internal corporate investigations. He has handled more than 30 trials in federal and state courts during his career. Mr. Stephens has also conducted numerous internal corporate investigations for Audit or Special Committees of public companies related to fraud and corporate governance issues.

Mr. Stephens has also represented officers and directors in investigations by various U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the SEC involving accounting fraud, securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, insider trading, RICO, FCPA, price fixing, and a variety of other alleged criminal violations.

Mr. Stephens recently served as trial counsel for Kent Roberts, the former general counsel of McAfee, Inc. in a criminal prosecution brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco. Following a three week trial, the jury acquitted Mr. Roberts.

Mr. Stephens also successfully defended Mr. Roberts in an enforcement action brought by the SEC in which the SEC voluntarily dismissed all charges against Mr. Roberts. To date, Mr. Roberts is the only defendant to successfully defend stock option backdating charges brought by either the DOJ or SEC.

Prior to joining Cooley in 2000, Mr. Stephens was an Assistant United States Attorney in Miami, Florida where he served as Chief of the Major Narcotics Section. He also served as Regional Coordinator of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force for the Florida/Caribbean Region. Mr. Stephens ran several investigations that resulted in the extradition and prosecution of high-level Colombian traffickers, including relatives and associates of Pablo Escobar, the former head of the Medellin cartel. He received national awards from both the Justice Department and DEA for his work on international wiretap prosecutions.