White Collar Defense Advisory: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: The Department of Justice Makes Rigorous Corporate Compliance Programs More Valuable
2/18/2011
ByBenjamin B. Tymann and Ari N. Stern
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), in a departure from past custom, has begun to give meaningful credit, and even some positive publicity, to businesses whose compliance programs were effective in detecting violations of law. In the past, DOJ typically made public mention of a company’s compliance program only when the program’s implementation was a mandatory condition of a settlement agreement.
