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Teasing Out Clawbacks and Deferred Payment Schemes – Who Should be Held Accountable and for How Much? (Part II of III)

The Justice Department did not just willy-nilly announce its embrace of clawbacks and deferred payment compensation punishment as a remediation tool for companies that suffer an enforcement action and settlement. To the contrary, DOJ has been examining this issue, even citing it in important policy spheres and enforcement actions,

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Incentives and Disincentives as the New Engine of Effective Compliance (Part I of III)

Some were surprised by the recent move by the Department of Justice in focusing on the importance of incentives and disincentives as an important factor in an effective ethics and compliance program. Others, however, had been waiting for years to this occur. To these compliance professionals, DOJ was finally arriving,