Rebecca Walker
Partner
Kaplan & Walker LLP
Santa Monica, CA

Rebecca Walker is a partner in the law firm of Kaplan & Walker LLP, a law firm specializing in corporate compliance and governance located in Santa Monica, California and Princeton, New Jersey.  Ms. Walker advises clients on the development and implementation of ethics and compliance programs.  She assists companies in developing compliance and ethics programs tailored to each client's legal risks and business needs, and that conform to appropriate government requirements and pronouncements regarding effective compliance programs.  Ms. Walker has worked with numerous companies in diverse industries on the design and implementation of their compliance programs, including risk assessment, compliance training, monitoring and auditing systems, supervisory structure and program documentation. She has also conducted numerous assessments of companies’ compliance and ethics programs.  Her clients have included companies from the consumer products, apparel, financial services, pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare, banking, advertising, consulting, telecommunications, energy, retail and airline industries, including many companies in the Fortune 500.

Ms. Walker advises clients on corporate governance matters, including assisting clients in drafting corporate governance guidelines and board committee charters, and advising clients on board oversight of their compliance programs.  She also conducts compliance training programs for boards of directors.

Ms. Walker received her B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Georgetown University and her J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School.  She was formerly associated with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, where she practiced in the Compliance Practice Group.  She is the author of Conflicts of Interest in Business and the Professions: Law and Compliance, published by Thomson West in 2005.  She has published numerous articles regarding corporate compliance and is a contributing editor of ethikos, a leading compliance and ethics journal.  Ms. Walker chairs the Practising Law Institute's annual Corporate Compliance Institutes in New York and San Francisco and their annual Advanced Compliance Workshops.  She is a frequent speaker on ethics and compliance issues, including for the Practising Law Institute, the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association and other legal and business groups.  Ms. Walker also served on the Advisory Panel of the Conference Board's recent global study regarding Ethics Programs and the Role of the Board.