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  • Three simple questions guide your employees through whether it’s OK to share info freely or they need an NDA before spilling the company beans.

    Do you need to get an NDA signed?

    Ever wonder if something you're about to share needs to be kept hush-hush? This handy guide is here to help! Think of it like a three-question quiz: answer yes or no, and it'll tell you if a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is needed before anyone spills...

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  • This checklist simplifies the investigation report drafting process and guides your investigators through everything they need to include—from initial timelines to root causes.

    Writing a good investigation report

    After all the effort that goes into a quality workplace investigation, writing a report that’s both concise and comprehensive can seem exhausting. But you need to memorialize that effort and it’s not something you can afford to get wrong...

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  • This thorough checklist guides you through the final review to ensure nothing fell through the cracks and your investigation report is courtroom ready.

    Finalizing the investigation report

    You’ve completed a thorough and thoughtful investigation, determined root causes, and have great ideas for how to resolve the issue and keep it from happening again. You’ve even written a fab report using our Writing a good investigation...

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  • If you’ve ever struggled to explain your job to someone, we feel you! The lines are often blurry when trying to distinguish between legal, compliance, HR, and internal audit. Which also means urgent info might take a few detours before arriving at the right destination (or get lost along the way!).

Demystify who does what with this handy chart, and look forward to receiving important info that actually belongs in your department, while spending a lot less time sending those “looping in so-and-so” emails. 

Looking for a pared-down version that works just as hard? Try the “Legal and Compliance: Who Does What?” infographic.

    Legal, Compliance, Audit, and HR: Who does what?

    If you’ve ever struggled to explain your job to someone, we feel you! The lines are often blurry when trying to distinguish between legal, compliance, HR, and internal audit. Which also means urgent info might take a few detours before arriving at...

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  • Mergers and acquisitions can be both exciting and terrifying, like base jumping, that long drop on a rollercoaster, or attending a social event for us introverts. While we don’t have a remedy for that weird stomach feeling, we do have a solution to ease some of your anxiety...  Prepare your employees for the integration with this one-pager that carefully lists everything to do (and not to do) premerger. Share this gun-jumping infographic for extra impact.

    Before a merger or acquisition...

    Mergers and acquisitions can be both exciting and terrifying, like base jumping, that long drop on a rollercoaster, or attending a social event for us introverts. While we don’t have a remedy for that weird stomach feeling, we do have a solution to...

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  • What are side letters?

    What are side letters?

    Packing sandwich condiments on the side reduces risk (of mushy bread, bleh!), but contract terms on the side only increases it. Use this checklist to make sure your teams don't spoil the deal!  Perfectly proportioned, it starts with a short, but...

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  • Gathering information for a personal data request

    Gathering information for a personal data request

    Expeditious Ex·pe·di·tious | /ˌekspəˈdiSHəs/ Definition : to do something with speed and efficiency How to use expeditious in a sentence:  This checklist helps your employees expeditiously gather and prepare information for...

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  • Data Processing Agreement checklist

    Data Processing Agreement checklist

    Everyone tells their teams to do their due diligence, but do they know what that actually looks like? This job aid gives your IT and procurement teams the ultimate vendor contract checklist, covering everything from contract basics to data-processing...

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  • When managers should escalate concerns to Compliance

    When managers should escalate concerns to Compliance

    We love it when leadership takes ownership of compliance, but what happens when they try to handle big-deal issues all on their own? Don’t leave ‘em in the dark wondering when they should loop you in. With this guide, they’ll know...

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  • Help folks understand how the E&C Team impacts their day-to-day and why they are essential to our business with this infographic.

    What does the Ethics and Compliance team do?

    Next time you’re at a party and someone asks you what you do, hand them this! Okay, maybe don’t—that’s kinda weird, but you can use this inspiring infographic to to teach employees what the Ethics and Compliance team...

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  • Legal and Compliance: Who Does What?

    Legal and Compliance: Who Does What?

    You’ve been asked it; this chart explains it. Set out for your employees the different roles and responsibilities of legal and compliance. Your compliance allies aren’t just in compliance; they’re also part of the legal team. Use this...

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  • Before you close the investigation file, make sure...

    Before you close the investigation file, make sure...

    This simple checklist reminds your investigative team of how to effectively close out and document an investigation. Before an investigation team moves on, there are about a dozen elements of documentation and communication that must occur. It’s...

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  • Contract Execution Checklist

    Contract Execution Checklist

    Distill down the critical elements for your company's contracts with this simple, customizable tool. Avoiding surprises after a deal closes requires your team to check for more than commas in the agreement. Before execution, use this powerful tool to...

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  • Template: Visual Legal Hold

    Template: Visual Legal Hold

    Help employees easily understand their obligations when lawsuits happen. When litigation lands, it’s critical that employees know how to navigate a legal hold. Why, then, are so many of them basically unreadable mountains of legalese? Use this...

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  • Assessing Conflicts of Interest

    Assessing Conflicts of Interest

    This helpful one-pager gives HR professionals an easy way to assess whether a business decision raises red flags due to a conflict of interest. This off-the-shelf version guides them through both relationships and financial interests that may create a...

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  • Contract terms checklist

    Contract terms checklist

    Want your transactional teams to think like compliance? Show them how with this thorough checklist for key terms required for every company contract. In the hurry to finish a deal, even the sharpest of transactional lawyers can miss important compliance...

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  • Would you trade on it?

    Would you trade on it?

    This graphic guide simplifies the types of information that should be protected to avoid insider trading. Without getting too far in the weeds of securities terminology (woof), this piece highlights common categories of material non-public...

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  • Insider Trading Basics

    Insider Trading Basics

    Gordon Gekko may think that greed is good, but your company doesn't when it comes to insider trading. Educate your employees on the basics with this graphic piece. Aimed at a general audience, this piece lays out three common categories of material...

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  • Going on a trip? Protect your data!

    Going on a trip? Protect your data!

    Show your folks these simple, but vital, rules for keeping company and personal info from being stolen while traveling. It’s not always intuitive that travel creates risk—people lose stuff, they get their computer stolen, hackers target...

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  • It doesn't need to go overseas to be an export

    It doesn't need to go overseas to be an export

    Easily educate your team on the basics of exports — and who can help if exports are involved.

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  • You might need an export license (ways to export version)

    You might need an export license (ways to export version)

    This graphic one-pager shows your team how to spot trade-compliance issues when sharing with non-citizens. Just because you’re not handing it to a courier doesn't mean it’s not an export—but that’s not really intuitive. This...

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  • You might need an export license (deemed exports version)

    You might need an export license (deemed exports version)

    This easy tool explains the completely non-intuitive concept of "deemed exports" in trade compliance. Focusing on deemed export elements that would surprise most employees, we’ve designed this piece to drive employees to seek help from compliance...

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