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His most recent Conference Board study on Ethics Programs: The Role of the Board (2004) was written with Jeffrey M. Kaplan.
His work has also appeared in Across the Board, Business and Society Review, Directorship and Nieman Reports.His speeches have been published in Vital Speeches and Executive Speeches.
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Jeff Kaplan, Partner, Kaplan & Walker, LLP, Chair, Legal Advisory Board, Midi Mr. Kaplan is a partner in Kaplan & Walker LLP.He specializes in all aspects of assisting companies in developing, implementing and reviewing corporate compliance programs, including conducting risk analyses; writing/editing codes of conduct and other policy documents; counseling companies in matters regarding training; developing compliance audit protocols and reporting systems; establishing compliance/ethics offices; counseling compliance committees; and assisting boards of directors in meeting their fiduciary duties under the Caremark case.Mr. Kaplan's compliance program practice has included work for clients in the securities, health care, life sciences, telecommunications, government contracting, insurance, manufacturing, energy, retail, publishing, professional services, forest products, technology, private investments, food and chemical fields.He also conducts internal investigations on behalf of boards and executives into allegations of wrongdoing brought by whistleblowers and others and practices in the areas of regulatory and white-collar criminal defense.He received his B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Carleton College in 1976 and his J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard University in 1980.He is a former partner of Chadbourne & Parke, where he served in the Special Litigation Group, and also a former partner of Arkin Kaplan & Cohen LLP and of Stier Anderson, LLC.
Mr. Kaplan chairs the legal advisory board of Midi, Inc., a provider of compliance and ethics learning services in Princeton, New Jersey.For many years he was Counsel to the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, a professional association of more than 1200 ethics and compliance officers.From 1997-2001, he was Program Director of the Conference Board's Business Ethics conference.He has also conducted an all-day "Compliance Risk Analysis Workshop" for the Conference Board.
Mr. Kaplan is co-editor, with Joe Murphy and Win Swenson, of Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines: Preventing Criminal and Civil Liability (West 1993), which is generally recognized as the leading legal treatise on designing and implementing ethics and compliance programs.
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Mr. Kaplan is author and co-author of numerous articles about business crime and compliance programs in periodicals such as The California Management Review, The Journal of Securities and Commodities Regulation, The Prevention of Corporate Liability: Current Report, The Preventive Law Reporter, Directorship, Director's Monthly, American Banker, Business Crime Commentary, the New York Law Journal and the National Law Journal, as well as various book chapters on compliance topics.He is a frequent speaker on ethics and compliance issues before the Practicing Law Institute and ALI/ABA and he chairs the Continuing Legal Education program in corporate compliance sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.He is also Adjunct Professor - Markets, Ethics and Law, at the Stern School of Business, New York University and a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars.
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Mr. Murphy is co-editor of Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines: Preventing Criminal and Civil Liability (Thomson/West; 1993 & annual updates), with Jeffrey Kaplan and Winthrop Swenson, and is co-author of, Working For Integrity: Finding the Perfect Job In the Rapidly-Growing Compliance and Ethics Field (SCCE; 2006).