Anyone looking for a step-by-step approach to conducting lawful corporate investigations can steal some ideas from the Association of Corporate Counsel. The ACC presented a panel discussion on internal investigations during its annual conference in Boston last week, and posed the following hypothetical: One of the company’s office managers has received an anonymous e-mail, where […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
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Keeping Pace With Anti-Trust Enforcement
Corporate legal departments might want to move antitrust enforcement a few steps higher on the priority scale for 2010. So said numerous speakers at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s annual meeting last week, during a forum to review the Obama Administration’s appetite for antitrust compliance. With new heads of antitrust policy at both the Federal […]
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Management Changes at Mariner Energy
$1.3 billion Mariner Energy has hired R. Cris Sherman as vice president and chief accounting officer, effective as of Oct. 26. Sherman joins Mariner from the professional services firm Sirius Solutions, which he joined in 2004 after more than 20 years of experience in various accounting positions. In other news, the company announced that John […]
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New Chief Compliance Officer at Merriman Curhan Ford
Financial services firm Merriman Curhan Ford Group has appointed Howard Bernstein as chief compliance officer. His appointment is part of the firm’ s efforts to rebuild its compliance and regulatory functions by separating those functions from its legal department, CEO Peter Coleman said in a prepared statement. In his new role, Bernstein will oversee the […]
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General Dynamics GC to Retire
$29.3 billion General Dynamics has announced the retirement of its longtime senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, David Savner. He will be retiring from the defense contracting giant Dec. 31. Savner joined General Dynamics as senior vice president in 1998 and was named general counsel in 1999. The company said it has not yet […]
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Sentencing Commission Appoints New Chair
The Senate on Oct. 21 confirmed Chief United States District Judge William Sessions as chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. Judge Sessions was nominated for this post by President Barack Obama on April 20. Judge Sessions has served as a vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission since November 1999, when he was […]
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Navistar CRO to Retire
$14.7 billion U.S. truck and engine maker Navistar International Corp., has announced the retirement of its Chief Risk Officer William Caton, effective Oct. 31. Navistar said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that his decision to retire was not a result of any disagreement with the company or its management. Caton joined […]
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EPA Tells Companies: Report Your Gas
The Environmental Protection Agency has published final rules that for the first time ever will require companies to monitor and report their greenhouse gas emissions, under a new reporting system set to take effect early next year. Jackson “We will now know with greater accuracy how much carbon is polluting our atmosphere and where energy […]
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IRS Reaches Out to Corporate Taxpayers
The Internal Revenue Service is looking to improve its communication with corporate taxpayers. Companies that don’t want to be hit with an audit may want to listen up. During a recent Webcast sponsored by KPMG, Steven Miller, commissioner of the IRS Division for Large and Midsize Business, said the agency wants to begin a conversation […]
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Weighing the Options of e-Discovery Programs
Controlling e-discovery costs while minimizing litigation risks are two of the greatest challenges that in-house lawyers face—challenges that most companies aren’t equipped to handle. “Given the relative complexity of e-discovery, very few companies can build and support a completely in-house discovery model,” Glen McFarlene, executive director of e-discovery at JPMorgan Chase, said during a recent […]
