DOJ’s Recent Corporate Compliance Program Evaluation Updates: More Of A Boon Than A Burden

As a former career federal prosecutor, and having spent nearly 12 years as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, I was relieved to learn that the numerous newly-published changes and additions to the guidance document addressing factors which the DOJ will look to in order to determine compliance program adequacy were, in most cases, more helpful than onerous, and more specific than general.