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Until February, Bradley Siciliano was general counsel of Sharp Electronics, the U.S. subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Sharp Corp., where he led the implementation of the company's first ethics and compliance program.

“Companies like Sharp, where you have a couple thousand employees, aren't that large in terms of revenue and population, and dedicating people specifically to compliance and going out and hiring a compliance specialist is a really big investment,” says Siciliano, now a shareholder at Littler Mendelson.