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“Corporate executives may be tempted …to invest fewer resources in their compliance efforts. …. I caution you in this regard. The Department is looking carefully at lapses - both past, present, and future - in corporate compliance.”
– Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Our Team
Joe Murphy, Of Counsel
Joseph E. Murphy, a partner in Compliance Systems Legal Group, and Vice Chairman of Integrity Interactive Corporation, has worked in the organizational compliance area for over twenty-five years. Before joining Compliance Systems Legal Group, Mr. Murphy was Senior Attorney, Corporate Compliance, at Bell Atlantic Corporation in Philadelphia, where he was the lawyer for Bell Atlantic's worldwide corporate compliance program. His experience in the communications industry spans the major Bell System antitrust cases, the AT&T divestiture, and the organization and development of Bell Atlantic. In his practice, Mr. Murphy has covered compliance issues ranging from antitrust to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, in places as diverse as Minot, North Dakota, Wellington, New Zealand, and Prague in the Czech Republic. His practice has included the full range of compliance activities including training, investigatiMr. Murphy is Co-Editor of ethikos, a bi-monthly publication on corporate compliance and ethics. He has lectured and written extensively on corporate compliance issues, and is the lawyer for the Pharmaceutical Industry Compliance Forum. Mr. Murphy is co-editor of Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines: Preventing Criminal and Civil Liability (Clark Boardman Callaghan; 1993 & annual updates), with Jeffrey Kaplan and Winthrop Swenson, and is currently working on a new book, Working For Integrity: Finding the Perfect Job In the Rapidly-Growing Compliance and Ethics Field. Other writings include "The Self-Evaluative Privilege," 7 J. Corporation L. 489 (1982); Interactive Corporate Compliance: An Alternative to Regulatory Compulsion (Greenwood Press; 1988), co-authored with Dr. Jay Sigler; and Corporate Lawbreaking and Interactive Compliance (Greenwood Press; 1991), also co-authored with Dr. Sigler.
Mr. Murphy has been quoted as an expert on compliance and the self-evaluative privilege in national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The National Law Journal and The American Bar Association Journal. He has given presentations on these subjects to business, professional and government groups including the ABA, the American Corporate Counsel Association, the United States Sentencing Commission, the Conference Board, the Ethics Officer Association, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, the Australian Compliance Institute and the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission.
While he was in-house counsel, Mr. Murphy was active in compliance issues through the American Corporate Counsel Association and its Delaware Valley chapter (DELVACCA), where he served on the DELVACCA board including two years as Treasurer. Mr. Murphy received a B.A. from Rutgers University in 1970. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was managing editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Mr. Murphy practices law as Joseph E. Murphy, P.C. and can be reached at 30 Tanner Street, Haddonfield, NJ 08033. Phone: (856) 429-5355; Facsimile: (856) 429-0866; E-mail: JMurphy@cslg.com. He is past president of the Historical Society of Haddonfield, and current president of the Delaware Valley chapter of USA Dance.
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