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As companies seek to successfully navigate the myriad reputational challenges presented by an increasingly global regulatory infrastructure, Bulletproof Blog™ presents the next in a series of video interviews with leading regulatory and compliance strategists. In today’s installment, Lucinda Low, who heads the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) practice at Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, discusses how the recent evolution in FCPA investigations and ... READ MORE

The top six social media tips to know before you leave the office. While the number of print publications worldwide is measured in the tens of thousands, the number of blogs is measured in the tens of millions. On average, nearly 1 million blog posts are published every 24 hours and the top blogs attract more eyes than leading newspapers such ... READ MORE

According to a report released earlier this month by the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 2009 saw significant increases in virtually all of the metrics by which Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement is measured. Criminal charges related to Commission investigations were up 43 percent, which led the report’s authors to conclude that collaboration between the SEC and criminal ... READ MORE

As companies begin to successfully navigate the myriad of reputational challenges inherent in the increasingly global regulatory infrastructure, Bulletproof Blog™ presents the next in a series of video interviews with leading regulatory and compliance strategists. In today’s installment, Tom McCarthy, Senior Counsel at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, discusses the value of buttressing legal strategy ... READ MORE

Pundits across the country continue to ask how the Democratic Party, which was riding so high less than a year-and-a-half ago, could have fallen far enough to lose the late Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate Seat. Some say it was voters’ reactions to health care reform. Others say it was unemployment. But according to data released earlier this month by Zogby ... READ MORE

Bulletproof’s Weekly Web Wrap-Up offers a compilation of key discussions regarding social media’s increasing relevance to business. The big social media news this week was the launch of Bill Gates’ new blog and Twitter feed – and the record speed with which his new online presence attracted followers. This type of engagement – stemming from the very top of the corporate ... READ MORE