Tom Fox, The Book

Tom Fox’s new book has already cracked Amazon's Top 100 for international law, and it deserves to be there.

Collected in the 324-page volume are some of Tom's best pieces from his outstanding FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.

Michael Volkov, himself an author of an Amazon bestseller, said this about Tom's Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics:

Tom’s insight is practical, positive and invaluable. Every compliance professional, attorney and consultant needs to read Tom’s book. In this risky environment of aggressive enforcement, Tom always can find a practical solution to what first appear to be intractable problems. He is a leader in the industry and his first book will hopefully lead to many more down the road.

In an introduction to Tom's book, we said:

Although he’s a Texan, Tom is no ‘cowboy’ when it comes to compliance. He’s thoughtful, deliberate, and conscientious. That’s why his views about the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, the U.K. Bribery Act, and similar laws have real weight. And why his blog posts, some of the best of which are collected in this book, are widely recognized as essential reading for anyone in the compliance community.

Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics is available here.

Our Town

Tom Fox of the FCPA Compliance and Ethics BlogFor a while now, those in the compliance community have counted themselves fortunate to have Tom Fox in their midst.

If you haven't met him, Tom is a full-sized, opened-faced Texan, with a manner that's easy and reassuring. Spend some time with him and pretty soon you're convinced that everything is running on the rails, right as rain.

His FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog is Tom all over. Go there looking for criticism of anyone or anything and you'll be disappointed. There isn't any. But go there looking for practical advice about how and why to comply with the FCPA and laws like it, and you'll be happy every time.

Keeping on the right side of the law is what Tom and his blog are all about. Somehow he finds vein after vein of pure compliance gold, then he hands it out freely to anyone with an interest.

On Friday, he departed from his usual message, but just a bit.

He posted 15 blog sites to check out on April 15. It's pure Tom Fox -- generous, practical, and full of his special brand of compliance wisdom.  (About this space, Tom said: "If the FCPA Blog didn’t exist, someone would have to create it . . . .")

If you haven't seen his blog or his fab fifteen, take a look.