Rebecca Walker

Rebecca Walker is a partner in the Santa Monica, California office of Kaplan & Walker LLP, a law firm dedicated exclusively to counseling organizations regarding compliance and ethics programs. For over twenty-five years, Rebecca has specialized in compliance and ethics law. She has helped hundreds of companies design compliance programs 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 served as a compliance monitor and independent expert reporting to the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of the Air Force, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the World Bank, and has supported monitorships reporting to the Department of Justice and the New York Attorney General.

Rebecca has counseled numerous companies regarding their compliance and ethics programs, including:

• Assisting organizations in effectively structuring their programs
• Advising boards of directors and audit committees on compliance oversight, program effectiveness, and governance expectations
• 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 and investigations procedures and conducting investigations training
• Developing risk assessment processes and conducting compliance risk assessments

Rebecca’s work spans a wide range of industries, including energy, consumer products, automotive, transportation, healthcare, insurance, defense, financial services, technology, and engineering.

Rebecca chairs the Practising Law Institute’s annual Compliance and Ethics Essentials program and co-chairs PLI’s annual Advanced Compliance and Ethics Workshop in New York. She is an editor of the weekly journal Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers. Rebecca serves on the Advisory Board of Compliance and Ethics Professional magazine and on the Editorial Board of the Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual. 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.