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National Defense November 2007 Hickey & Connolly	Ethical Lapses Provide Valuable Training Tool A recently proposed amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulations would call upon all government contractors to have a written code of ethics and business conduct.
Inc. September 2008	Who's Who? Are you wondering whether one of your workers has been misclassified as a contractor? Ask yourself these questions.
National Defense October 2009 Stephen Epstein	Companies Must Beware of New 'Revolving Door' Policies Relationships between government and private contractor representatives must be carefully approached as recent front page stories highlighting allegations of collusion and impropriety have shown.
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Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Ann Therese Palmer	Know When to Hold 'Em, Know When to Fold 'Em Q: I've been a certified financial planner and investment advisor rep for six years. What are some do's and don'ts for a client-appreciation event that I might not know about?... A: here is nothing like a good poker game to raise all types of ethical quandaries for people in the securities business...
National Defense February 2012 Sean M. Connolly	Update Emerges For New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rule Effective Dec. 2, 2011, the Federal Acquisition Regulation requires U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to prevent personal conflicts of interest that arise during their employees' performance of certain acquisition functions.
National Defense February 2004 James McAleese	Safe Harbors of Ethical Conduct Needed in Defense Procurement In light of a recent series of isolated, highly controversial public scandals with respect to several major defense acquisition programs, it is important to create "safe harbors" of conduct so that both government and contractor personnel can work as a cohesive team .
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National Defense September 2009 Laura Kennedy	Tighter Rules For Conflicts Of Interest The new tighter controls on conflicts of interest are forcing defense contractors to become more vigilant to free their relationships from conflicts in all its forms.
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National Defense December 2009 McGrath & Connolly	Industry Should Prepare for Review of Ethics Programs Contractors may soon have more complete answers as to how the Defense Department will verify contractor compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation's recent ethics program requirements.
National Defense April 2008 McGrath & Connolly	New Rules For Federal Contracts Effective Dec. 24, 2007, the government-wide federal acquisition regulation (FAR) mandates a written code of ethics for almost all government contractors.
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National Defense July 2006 Dorn C. McGrath	What's Good for the Goose and the Gander Actual bad faith by government officials is relatively rare, but it happens, and making government officials accountable when it does occur is essential to the integrity of our procurement system.
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Entrepreneur December 2006 Gwen Moran	The Gift of Giving Ideas for corporate holiday gift-giving.
National Defense May 2007 Dave Hickey	Flurry of Lobbying Reform Affects Defense Industry The defense industry and others engaged in Washington policymaking will be inevitably be affected by recent government reform legislation.
National Defense February 2010 Sean M. Connolly	New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rules Proposed Federal Acquisition Regulations call for contractors to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest or face serious disciplinary action.
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National Defense February 2009 David H. Laufman	Mandatory Disclosure Regime Raises Stakes for Contractors A new regulatory enforcement regime has now commenced that underscores the Department of Justice's aggressive approach to procurement fraud and dramatically increases the compliance and disclosure obligations of defense contractors.
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National Defense February 2013 Jack & Kaprove	New Anti-Human Trafficking Rules to Come A new presidential executive order released on Sept. 25 enhanced anti-trafficking compliance obligations covering federal contractors.
National Defense May 2010 Dorn C. McGrath	Contractors Must Begin to Update Integrity Database The National Defense Authorization Act of 2009 now requires the government to develop and maintain an information system containing specific information on the integrity and performance of federal contractors and grantees.
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National Defense March 2011 Denis Chamberland	Contractors on the Battlefield: Outsourcing of Military Services The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in the scale of outsourcing of military services to third parties, emphasizing the importance of integrating contractor support into military operations and generating efficiencies.
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National Defense March 2004 Richard J. Bednar	Small Companies Need Ethics Programs Too The Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct (DII)-- focused on defense industry ethics and conduct programs since its inception in 1986--has developed a "tool kit" to help smaller defense contractors plan ethics and conduct program.
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