Biography
Rebecca Walker is a partner in the Santa Monica, California office of Kaplan & Walker LLP, a law firm that is dedicated exclusively to counseling organizations regarding compliance and ethics programs. For over twenty years, Rebecca has specialized in compliance and ethics law. She has helped hundreds of companies design compliance programs that are tailored to their legal risks and business needs and that conform to applicable government standards.
Rebecca has conducted numerous assessments of compliance and ethics programs, including assessments of entire programs as well as “deep dive” assessments of program elements, such as investigations procedures and program structure, and subject matter areas, such as conflicts of interest and anti-corruption compliance. She has also served as a monitor for the Department of the Air Force; as an independent consultant to a company for compliance with undertakings ordered in an SEC FCPA matter; and as an independent consultant to a company for compliance with undertakings in a World Bank matter.
Rebecca has counseled numerous companies regarding their compliance and ethics programs, including:
- Assisting organizations in effectively structuring their programs
- Supporting boards of directors in their oversight of compliance programs
- Advising organizations on policy governance and drafting and revising codes of conduct and other compliance policies and procedures, including conflicts of interest and anti-corruption policies and procedures
- Developing and delivering compliance training and assisting in the development of compliance training and communications plans
- Developing reporting systems, investigations procedures and investigations training
- Developing risk assessment processes and conducting compliance risk assessments
Rebecca’s clients have included companies from the oil and gas, government contracting, defense, engineering/construction, energy, financial services, pharmaceutical, health care, banking, automotive, publishing, advertising, consulting, telecommunications, retail, consumer products, apparel, railroad and shipping industries, among others, including many companies in the Fortune 500.
Rebecca chairs the Practising Law Institute's annual Compliance and Ethics Essentials program and co-chairs PLI’s annual Advanced Compliance and Ethics Workshop. She serves on the Advisory Board of Compliance and Ethics Professional magazine, published by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and on the Editorial Board of the Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual. She is an editor of the journal Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers. She is also a member of the faculty of SCCE’s Compliance and Ethics Essentials workshop. For seven years, Rebecca served on the Advisory Board of the SCCE, the largest association of compliance professionals in the world. She also served on the Advisory Board of the Corporate Compliance Center at the South Texas College of Law.
Rebecca is the author of Conflicts of Interest in Business and the Professions: Law and Compliance, published by Thomson Reuters. She has published numerous articles and surveys regarding compliance and ethics. She is also a frequent speaker on compliance and ethics issues.
Rebecca received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.