Category Archives: Risk Management

DOJ Housing Enforcement Reminds Businesses Sexual Harassment Protections Don’t Just Protect Employees


Justice Department settlement reminds housing and other businesses sexual harassment risks exist beyond employment. Continue reading

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Want To Be A Great Leader: Take A Leadership Lesson In Horsemanship


Great horse people make great leaders because they lead the horse through attention and responsiveness to the capabilities and needs of the horse. Real leadership happens from action not talk and leadership talk is often cheap and plentiful in the … Continue reading

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ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Use As Discoverable Evidence in Litigation and Government Investigations: What Business Leaders Must Know


Use of AI can have significant evidence, document retention, and other consequences for organizations and their legal exposure. Organizations in their leaders need to manage the use of AI to manage these risks and obligations. Continue reading

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4/24 Deadline To Respond To On DOJ/FTC Invite For Comments on Antitrust Policy


Comment on DOJ/FTC antitrust rules on competitor collaborations by 4/24 Continue reading

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Public Companies Warned To Disclose Cyber Risks By $7 Million SEC Penalty


The $7 million in penalties the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) collected from four current and former public companies warns other public companies and their leaders of the growing risks of making materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks and intrusions … Continue reading

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Sex Harassment Lawsuit Against Landlord Reminder Federal Discrimination Bans Apply To Housing, Other Business Ops Beyond Employmenr


A new Fair Housing Act sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the owner and operator of rental properties in the Pulaski County, Kentucky area reminds business owners and leaders that sexual harassment and other federal civil rights and other discrimination and … Continue reading

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New DOJ Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy Alerts Organizations To Strengthen Sentencing Guideline Compliance Programs


Since the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are key determinants on the criminal liability and sentencing of organizations and their leaders for federal crimes committed by their organization or their employees, organizations and their leaders need to clearly understand the multitude of laws that could trigger their application and the practices necessary to position themselves and their organizations to mitigate liability in the event of a potential criminal violation. Continue reading

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Automobile & Other Motor Vehicle Businesses Must Prepare For New FTC Rules


Automobile and other impacted motor vehicle businesses (“should begin preparations to comply with newly proposed Federal Trade Commission rules targeting certain motor vehicle seller’s marketing, sales, leasing and financing practices set forth in the recently published FTC Motor Vehicle Dealers Trade Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”) as well as submit any relevant comments on the Proposed Rule by the September 12, 2022 comment deadline. Continue reading

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Live Nation & Radio Music License Committee Targeted In Justice Department Antitrust Activity


Justice Department entertainment industry enforcement action to protect ticketholders & competitors highlights new general antitrust enforcement activism Continue reading

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Robocall Law Raises Fines, Tightens Requirements


Robocallers could be fined up to $10,000 and telephone and other voice providers will face more responsibility to identify and stop the burgeoning robocall epidemic under a bill passed by Congress and awaiting President Trump’s signature.  The new rules offer … Continue reading

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Chrisley, Other Felony Tax Prosecutions Highlight Growing Tax Criminal Prosecution Risks


Christley tax prosecution, other convictions show advisability of cleaning up and avoiding new employment, income and other tax violations. Continue reading

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Rene Augustine Named DOJ Antitrust Division Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Responsible for International and Policy


Zurich’s $5.1 million tax penalty reminds US businesses involved in international transactions to comply with US cross border reporting and tax requirements Continue reading

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$5.1 Million Zurich Life Tax Settlement Highlights International Reporting Noncompliance Risks


Zurich’s $5.1 million tax penalty reminds US businesses involved in international transactions to comply with US cross border reporting and tax requirements Continue reading

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Manage Better By Managing Emotion In Messages


Consciously manage the emotion in your message to manage others better. Research shows people don’t actually respond to language that’s positive or negative. They respond to language that’s emotional. Emotion in language can motivate or alienate, deliver criticism or coaching, … Continue reading

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Don’t Underestimate Quiet Team Members


Management often lose the benefit of valuable insights of quiet team members amid the din of input of more assertively expressive team members. Capture this input by structuring avenues to encourage and capture this quiet input. About The Author A … Continue reading

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Secure Devices With Auto-Tracking


Secure devices using mobile tracking. Continue reading

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Reconstruct Records After a Disaster


Are you trying to help your business or family clean up the mess and recover from a hurricane, flood, fire or other disaster? Reconstructing records to prove a loss for tax purposes, getting federal assistance, or insurance reimbursement often is … Continue reading

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Improving Education To Better Train US Workers To Fill US Jobs


What can the US do to better train and educate our workforce to have skills to fill US jobs? Continue reading

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Leadership Starts & Ends At The Top


Business leaders expecting better ethical, legal and operational compliance and leadership achieve their goals easier when leaders lead by example.   Recent media coverage of sexual harassment and other transgressions by senior management at Fox News, Uber, Enron and a … Continue reading

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Take Your Preventive Medicine


Better planning and management can head off most but not all problems. Sometimes stuff happens even when you do everything right. Either way, better management usually minimizes the damage and makes it easier to clean up the mess. It’s never … Continue reading

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Supreme Court Ruling Boosts Arbitration Agreements’ Enforcability 


Employers and businesses should review their options to use arbitration and possible enhanced duty to arbitrate under arbitration agreements based on new SCOTUS Kindred Health decision. Continue reading

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Homeland Security Issues Urgent Cyber Warning To US Businesses


U.S. agencies are warning U.S. businesses to batten down their cyber security defenses to guard against a WannaCry ransomware cybersecurity threat sweeping the Globe. Continue reading

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Leadership Starts From Within


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Lead Right


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CG TechNology Nailed For $12M For Bank Secrecy Act Money Laundering Violations


The $12 million FinCEN civil money penalty (CMP) imposed against CG Technology, L.P., doing business as Cantor Gaming, reminds gaming and other U.S. regulated businesses of the importance of maintaining and administering appropriate policies and practices to comply with the anti-money laundering … Continue reading

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Data Breach & Cyber Securities & Investor Risk Management


Corporations and their leaders to add reviewing prospectus and investor cyber security and data breach disclosures to their data breach and cyber security risk management and response to do lists help guard against  post event  shareholder claims and regulator investigations. … Continue reading

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10 Practical Pointers To Use Law To Better Strengthen The Legal Defensibility Of Your Business & Its Leaders


Businesses and their leaders struggling to managing the ever-changing and constantly growing regulatory and other legal risks inherent in operating a business in today’s litigation and enforcement-charged environment often miss invaluable opportunities by failing to take certain basic steps that strengthen their liability defenses and the effectiveness of their risk management and compliance efforts.

While each organization and leader needs to carefully tailor its organizational risk management and compliance programs to meet the unique needs and challenges of its operations, all risk management and compliance efforts generally should incorporate and operate on at least each of the following 10 Corporate Governance processes:
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