The Department of Justice’s long-standing commitment to corporate crime enforcement and executive accountability, as recently re-emphasized by Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, creates significant new leadership education, policy design and culture support tasks for the Chief Legal Officer (CLO).

By her announcement, Monaco has introduced aggressive new guidelines (“the Monaco Guidelines”) by which the Department of Justice will engage with corporate wrongdoing; a course that combines an expedited approach to the investigative process and a sharpened application of individual accountability, with a “carrot and stick” approach to enticing and eliciting corporate cooperation and incentivizing compliant personal conduct.