The Justice Department is focusing with a laser beam on corporate incentives and disincentives.  This truly is a remarkable initiative and companies should undertake their own holistic review of internal incentives and disincentives.  For years, we have heard about corporate incentives to achieve earnings and how sales rewards can unintentionally distort compliance.  As an important step, DOJ’s Criminal Division recently issued its new, three-year Pilot...

The Justice Department has taken steps to implement its new compliance compensation requirement announced in its Corporate Enforcement Policy revisions.  With little fanfare, the Danske Bank $2 billion settlement with the Justice Department include an additional provision in its settlement papers outlining the new requirement. DOJ’s settlement papers include standard provisions that have grown through the years.  Schedule C has set forth DOJ requirements for...