Compliance is one of the most crucial functions within the modern company. At their core, compliance professionals assess and ensure that a company or organization's internal codes of conduct, policies, procedures, and actual conduct conform with the externally imposed legal obligations and best practices applicable to the particular business. And understanding risks is the first step towards avoiding them.

The ABA Compliance Officer's Deskbook, co-authored by Perkins Coie partner T. Markus Funk, equips today's compliance professionals from private sector companies and organizations, nonprofits, hospitals, and all other entities whose funds and reputation might be jeopardized by failure to comply with the law with a practical, comprehensive understanding of the regulatory and enforcement landscape in a manner that is thorough and easily-digestible.

A number of chapters were contributed, in whole or in part, by Perkins Coie thought leaders Craig Allely (Chapter 9, Product Safety and Liability), Hartmann Young (Chapter 11, Government Contracts), Mike Sink (Chapter 13, Privacy and Data Security), Rick Oehler and Ann M. Nagele (Chapter 18, International Transactions Compliance: OFAC Sanction), and Paul O. Hirose (Chapter 20, Developing a CSR Supply Chain Compliance Program). The book identifies compliance pitfalls and challenges across industries, subject matters, and corporate infrastructures and recommends practical solutions for today's most high-profile, hot-button compliance topics, including:

The Role of the Compliance Professional in Today's Organization;

• Labor Exploitation and Corporate Social Responsibility;
• The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") and U.S. Travel Act;
• Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley Financial Regulations;
• Health Care;
• Pharmaceutical, Medical, and Food Products;
• Product Safety;
• Environmental Regulation;
• Government Contracts;
• Nonprofit Entities; and
• The Corporate Whistleblower;
• And much more….

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