Good Practice

“Turning square corners” – Beyond mere legal compliance

Issue 3.

Author
John Pisa-Relli
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John Pisa-Relli currently serves as consulting legal counsel to a multinational aerospace and defense company headquartered in the United States, where he advises on a wide range of trade compliance matters. For the previous ten years, he directed the internal trade compliance program for Accenture, the world’s largest business consulting firm. Prior to joining Accenture, John served in the US federal government, practiced law privately, and served as in-house director of trade compliance with a multinational aerospace and defense group headquartered in Europe. Connect with John on LinkedIn..

A trade compliance program, no matter how well designed or resourced, cannot truly be effective unless it is built on a strong ethical foundation.
One hundred years ago, US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously wrote that people “must turn square corners when dealing with the government”. In the context of the legal opinion he authored, these words meant that all formalities must be followed to the letter when dealing with regulatory authorities. But over time, this maxim expa...

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