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William Mutryn
Partner
Northern Virginia

William J. Mutryn is co-leader of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group and serves on the firm's Directors Committee. He practices principally in the areas of mergers and...

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Leighton D. Yates
Partner
Orlando

Leighton D. Yates, Jr. is co-Leader of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group. He practices general corporate, banking, securities, and commercial law, with particular...

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Court Expands Duty to Corporate Officers and General Counsel to Implement Compliance and Ethics Programs
 

Compliance and Ethics Magazine

October 1, 2008
 
Michael Mannix- Northern Virginia
Christopher Myers- Northern Virginia

In light of the recent Miller v. McDonald, et. al. decision, senior management must take steps to ensure that appropriate compliance program structures and activities are in place and operating or risk that corporate officers, and, in particular, the general counsel, can be held personally liable for corporate fraud and related wrongdoing. Please click on the link below to view the article.

This article, published in the October 2008 issue of Compliance and Ethics, appears here with permission from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.

READ: Court Expands Duty to Corporate Officers and General Counsel to Implement Compliance and Ethics Programs

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