While the world marketplace continues to demand corporate and regulatory compliance, how to best implement corporate compliance programs remains in flux. On Friday, May 20, Rutgers Law School’s Center for Corporate Law and Governance will sponsor the free and public conference “New Directions in Corporate Compliance” at its Camden location.
Bringing together academics, practitioners, and government officials, the conference will feature 10 distinguished speakers, including Andrew Donohue, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who will deliver a keynote luncheon address.
Sessions scheduled throughout the 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. event will focus on litigating the adequacy of a compliance program, structural issues in the compliance department, and developing a culture of compliance.
According to Rutgers Professor Arthur Laby, who co-directs the Center with Rutgers Law Distinguished Practice Professor Douglas Eakeley, the Alan V. Lowenstein Professor of Corporate and Business Law, corporate and regulatory compliance has exploded as an area of importance to a variety of business in recent years.
“Corporate compliance programs must be well planned and rigorously implemented throughout a business organization,” says Laby, who served for nearly ten years on the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, most recently as Assistant General Counsel. “While there is strong recognition of the importance of corporate compliance, there is disagreement over the best way to implement and enforce a compliance program. This conference will further that dialogue by bringing together a wide range of speakers, who approach compliance from different perspectives, to shed light on viable next steps for organizations.”
Other distinguished speakers at the conference include Catherine Bromilow, partner of PwC’s Center for Board Governance; Stephen L. Cohen, associate director of the Securities and Exchange Commission; James Fanto, Gerald Baylin Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School; Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynold Professor of Law at Georgetown Law; Joseph E. Murphy, author of the book 501 Ideas for Your Compliance and Ethics Program (Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, 2008); Donna Nagy, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law; Charles V. Senatore, executive vice president at Fidelity Investments; Greg Urban, Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania; and John H. Walsh, partner at Sutherland.
While the conference is free and open to the public, registration is required. To register, contact Deborah Leak at dl524@camden.rutgers.edu.
CLE credit is available for the conference at $125; credit hours for New Jersey are 6.9, for New York are 6.5 and for Pennsylvania 5.5. To register for CLE credit, visit ipe.rutgers.edu.