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Jeff Kaplan, Retired Founding Partner
effrey M. Kaplan, a founding partner of Kaplan & Walker LLP, is now retired. Over the course of his career, Jeff was widely recognized as a leading authority and thought leader in compliance and ethics law.
Jeff specialized in all aspects of assisting companies in developing, implementing and reviewing corporate compliance/ethics programs. Jeff’s practice included work for clients in a wide range of industries. He also served as a compliance monitor or expert reporting to the Department of Justice, SEC, NY Attorney General, and the World Bank.
Jeff 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.
For many years Jeff was Counsel to the Ethics Officer Association (now the ECI). a professional association of more than 1200 compliance/ethics officers. He has also served as Program Director for the Conference Board’s annual Business Ethics conference and its Council on Corporate Compliance. In 2009 he was a recipient of a Compliance and Ethics Award from the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics, which that organization bestows annually on “Compliance and Ethics Champions.”
Jeff was, together with Joe Murphy and Win Swenson, co-editor of Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines: Preventing Criminal and Civil Liability (West 1993), a leading legal treatise on designing and implementing compliance/ethics programs. He is co-author of The Prevention and Prosecution of Computer and High Technology Crime (Matthew Bender 1989). He was for many years co-publisher/executive editor of ethikos, a bimonthly magazine for compliance/ethics professionals and authored an e-book for CCI on risk assessment. Jeff is author and co-author of numerous articles about business crime and compliance/ethics 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, and also various book chapters on these topics. He is co-chair of the Practicing Law Institute’s Advanced Compliance and Ethics Workshop; had, for many years, chaired the Continuing Legal Education program in corporate compliance sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and is editor of the Conflict of Interest Blog.
Jeff is a former Adjunct Professor of Business Ethics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars.
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