Navex Ethics Report. Courtesy of Navex Global.

While shaping an organization's culture doesn't normally fall under the purview of the legal department, most in-house counsel surveyed in a new report released Tuesday ranked culture as one of the most important factors affecting their companies' ethics and compliance programs.

The 2017 Ethics & Compliance Benchmark Report for Legal Professionals looks at challenges in-house counsel will face in 2018 and explores how to confront them. It is the first role-based report by NAVEX Global Inc., an ethics and compliance software company.

“The report gives general counsel the ability to look across a bunch of in-house counsel in different industries and find out what they are focused on,” said NAVEX Global general counsel Shon Ramey in an interview.