Joseph E. Murphy
Partner
Compliance Systems Legal Group

Joe Murphy, of counsel to Compliance Systems Legal Group, and co-founder of Integrity Interactive Corporation, has worked in the organizational compliance and ethics area for over thirty years.  Before joining Compliance Systems Legal Group, Joe was Senior Attorney, Corporate Compliance, at Bell Atlantic Corporation, where he was the lawyer for Bell Atlantic's worldwide corporate compliance program. Joe is Co-Editor of ethikos, a bi-monthly publication on corporate compliance and ethics.  He was previously vice-chairman of the board of Integrity Interactive Corporation.  He has worked on compliance and ethics matters on six continents, and has worked with government agencies, NGOs and companies across a broad range of industries. 

Joe has lectured and written extensively on corporate compliance and ethics issues, is on the board of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), and is the SCCE’s Director of Public Policy (pro bono). He has represented SCCE as a consultative partner to the OECD’s Working Group on Foreign Bribery in Paris, and testified before the US Sentencing Commission on the proposed revisions to the Sentencing Guidelines.

With his mentor, Jay Sigler, Joe wrote the first book on compliance programs, Interactive Corporate Compliance in 1988, 3 years before the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines were issued.  Together with Jeff Kaplan and Win Swenson he wrote the leading legal text on compliance programs, Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines. He is also the author of 501 Ideas for Your Compliance & Ethics Program (SCCE; 2008) and  co-author of Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics (SCCE; 2007).

Joe has his BA from Rutgers University, and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Managing Editor of the Law Review.

Joe is also an avid ballroom dancer, chief cha-cha officer of Dance Haddonfield in his home town of Haddonfield, NJ, and founder of the Society of Dancing Compliance and Ethics Professionals.