Joe Murphy, CCEP, a Haddonfield-based compliance and ethics professional with a global reach, presented at the Rutgers Law School’s Center for Corporate Law and Governance for its conference in Camden entitled “New Directions in Corporate Compliance.” The conference bought together academics, practitioners and government officials, including two from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“I gave a talk on ‘Structuring the compliance and ethics program for success,’” said Murphy. “There was a very interesting array of thought-provoking speakers including Steve Cohen, the associate director of Division of Enforcement at the SEC.”
The conference at Rutgers Law School was funded in part by the Jay Sigler Fund, which was established by Murphy in honor of his colleague and mentor, who was a professor at the university.
“There was some heavy nostalgia in being there,” Murphy said. “Thirty years ago, I was visiting regularly at a campus location not more than a block away, working with Jay on our ground-breaking book, ‘Interactive Corporate Compliance,’ which was the first book to lay out the concept of government incentives to drive compliance programs.”
“Interactive Corporate Compliance” was published in 1988 — the first of many writings by Murphy on this subject.
“We also developed the idea that programs needed to be interactive, and not simply one-way messages delivered by lawyers. It was an experience for me to see what were just ideas in the 1980s now something that is in day-to-day practice.”
Murphy works with governments and non-governmental organizations to promote compliance and ethics anywhere around the world.
