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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
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Class-Action Filings
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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.

William S. Freeman

Partner and Co-Chair, Securities Litigation Practice Group
Cooley Godward Kronish

William Freeman William S. Freeman is the co-chair of the Cooley Godward Kronish Securities Litigation practice group. He joined the Firm in 1981 and has been a partner in the Firm since 1986.

Mr. Freeman litigates securities and complex commercial cases. He has extensive jury trial experience and has led numerous internal corporate investigations. For nearly 30 years, he has represented companies, officers, directors and investors in a wide array of proceedings including class action and derivative suits, corporate control and merger-related litigation, SEC enforcement actions and internal investigations.

He also advises public companies and their officers, directors, shareholders and underwriters on a broad range of issues including public disclosure, fiduciary duties, insider trading and litigation risk reduction

In 2007-2009, Mr. Freeman represented Kent H. Roberts, former General Counsel of McAfee, Inc., in the successful defense of an SEC enforcement action alleging stock option backdating. The result obtained for the client was unprecedented in all of the SEC’s backdating cases: the SEC voluntarily dismissed all charges against Mr. Roberts with prejudice.

Mr. Freeman has secured numerous victories in securities cases on motions, in trial and on appeal, for a broad range of companies in the information technology, biotechnology and consumer products fields.

From 1978 until 1981, he served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he won significant monetary recoveries for the government in cases of official corruption, procurement fraud and abuse of government programs.