CHICAGO, Ill. (May 3, 2017) - 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. One need only read the news to see countless examples of where the compliance function failed to live up to these expectations – often with truly disastrous results, both for the organization and for its employees and management.

Understanding risks is the first step towards avoiding them. The ABA Compliance Officer's Deskbook, written by Perkins Coie Partner T. Markus Funk, Seyfarth Shaw’s Andrew Boutros, and Professor James T. O’Reilly, equips today’s compliance professionals from private sector companies and organizations, nonprofits, hospitals, and all other entities whose funds and reputation might be wasted by failure to comply with the law with a first-of-its-kind understanding of the regulatory and enforcement landscape in a manner that is thorough and easily-digestible.

The ABA Compliance Officer’s Deskbook is a user-friendly, practical, and real-world-based resource written for individuals focused on today’s compliance and enforcement realities. A number of a 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), 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;
• Healthcare;
• Pharmaceutical, Medical, and Food Products;
• Product Safety;
• Environmental Regulation;
• Government Contracts;
• Nonprofit Entities;
• The Corporate Whistleblower;
• And much more….

Please click here for details on how to order “The ABA Compliance Officer's Deskbook.”

About Co-Author T. Markus Funk: The Firmwide Chair of Perkins Coie’s White Collar & Investigations Practice, and the Founding Co-Chair of the firm’s Supply Chain Compliance and CSR Practice (the first such practice among the AmLaw 100’s largest law firms). Prior to joining the firm, Markus served as a federal prosecutor in Chicago, Section Chief with the State Department-Balkans, clerk with the federal appellate and district courts, and law professor at Oxford University and the University of Chicago. He also founded Perkins Coie’s supply chain practice and the ABA’s Global Anti-Corruption Committee. Markus, a member of the American Law Institute, uniquely received both the Department of Justice’s Attorney General’s Award for Nation’s top trial performance and the State Department's Superior Honor Award for service to the country.

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