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Corporate Governance

Corporate Compliance Checklist

Creating comprehensive corporate compliance checklists manually requires hours of research across multiple legal sources, regulatory frameworks, and industry best practices. Attorneys must synthesize information from bar associations, legal databases, and sector-specific guidelines while ensuring coverage of governance, risk assessment, training, auditing, and reporting requirements—a time-intensive process prone to gaps and inconsistencies.

Automation ROI

Time savings at a glance

Manual workflow16 hoursAverage time your team spends by hand
With CaseMark12 minutesDelivery time with CaseMark automation
EfficiencySave 32.5x time with CaseMark

The Problem

Creating thorough corporate compliance checklists requires synthesizing complex regulatory requirements, DOJ guidance, industry standards, and company-specific policies across dozens of compliance domains. Compliance officers spend 15+ hours researching requirements, drafting assessment criteria, and customizing frameworks to their organization's risk profile. Manual checklist development often results in gaps, inconsistent coverage, or outdated regulatory references.

The CaseMark Solution

CaseMark's AI generates comprehensive, customized corporate compliance checklists that cover governance structures, risk assessment, training programs, monitoring protocols, and domain-specific requirements. The system incorporates DOJ evaluation criteria, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, SEC guidance, and current regulatory expectations while adapting to your company's industry, size, and compliance maturity level.

Key benefits

How CaseMark automations transform your workflow

Reduce compliance checklist drafting time from 6+ hours to under 15 minutes

Automatically incorporate best practices from ABA, LegalZoom, and authoritative legal sources with proper citations

Integrate company-specific policies and audit records for customized compliance frameworks

Ensure comprehensive coverage across governance, risk assessment, training, monitoring, and reporting

Generate sector-specific compliance checks for employment, data privacy, financial reporting, and contracts

What you'll receive

Introduction
Governance and Policies
Risk Assessment
Training and Awareness
Monitoring and Auditing
Reporting Mechanisms
Specific Compliance Areas
Documentation and Recordkeeping
Conclusion and Next Steps

Document requirements

Required

  • Company Information

Optional

  • Existing Compliance Policies
  • Prior Audit Reports
  • Organizational Chart
  • Risk Assessment Materials

Perfect for

Chief Compliance Officers
General Counsel and Legal Department Leaders
Corporate Governance Professionals
Audit Committee Members
Internal Audit Directors
Risk Management Officers
Corporate Secretaries
Ethics and Compliance Managers

Also useful for

This workflow is applicable across multiple practice areas and use cases

Regulatory General98% relevant

Corporate compliance checklists are fundamental to regulatory practice, ensuring clients meet legal obligations across multiple regulatory frameworks and jurisdictions.

Regulatory attorneys must constantly monitor and verify client compliance with evolving regulations, making comprehensive compliance checklists essential tools for their practice.

Data privacy compliance requires detailed checklists covering GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations, including training, monitoring, and breach reporting mechanisms.

The workflow explicitly mentions data privacy as a specific compliance area and includes sections on training, monitoring, and reporting that are critical to privacy compliance programs.

Financial Services84% relevant

Financial institutions need detailed compliance frameworks covering regulatory requirements, risk assessment, and reporting for banking, securities, and anti-money laundering regulations.

The workflow's focus on financial reporting compliance, risk assessment, and regulatory frameworks directly supports financial services compliance obligations.

Healthcare Law82% relevant

Healthcare organizations require comprehensive compliance checklists for HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid regulations, and healthcare-specific governance requirements.

Healthcare compliance is highly regulated with strict documentation, training, and audit requirements that align perfectly with the workflow's output sections.

Corporate General78% relevant

General corporate practice requires compliance checklists for ongoing corporate governance, employment law, contract management, and regulatory obligations.

Corporate attorneys handle broad compliance matters across multiple areas mentioned in the workflow, including employment, contracts, and governance policies.

Frequently asked questions

Q

What compliance areas does this checklist cover?

A

The checklist provides comprehensive coverage of corporate compliance program elements including governance and board oversight, compliance leadership structure, policy frameworks, risk assessment methodology, training and culture, monitoring and testing, reporting mechanisms, and investigations. It also addresses key regulatory domains such as employment law, data privacy, financial reporting and SOX compliance, anti-corruption and FCPA, antitrust, environmental compliance, and procurement. The framework is customized based on your industry and regulatory profile.

Q

How does this align with DOJ and SEC compliance program expectations?

A

The checklist is structured around the Department of Justice's Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs framework, which examines whether programs are well-designed, applied in good faith, and work in practice. It incorporates Federal Sentencing Guidelines factors, SEC enforcement priorities, and regulatory guidance from multiple agencies. The assessment criteria reflect current regulatory expectations for program adequacy, helping organizations demonstrate effective compliance to regulators and courts.

Q

Can I customize this checklist for my company's specific needs?

A

Yes, the AI customizes the checklist based on your company information, industry sector, size, geographic footprint, and regulatory profile. You can upload existing compliance policies, prior audit findings, and organizational documents to incorporate company-specific context. The framework is designed to be adapted and supplemented for your unique risk landscape while maintaining comprehensive coverage of core compliance program elements.

Q

How can I use this checklist to assess our current compliance program?

A

The checklist serves as both an implementation guide and assessment tool. It includes evaluation criteria for each compliance program element, allowing you to gauge your current posture against best practices and regulatory expectations. You can use it to conduct gap analyses, prioritize enhancement initiatives, prepare for board reporting, support internal audits, or evaluate compliance program effectiveness. The document includes metrics and assessment questions aligned with DOJ evaluation standards.

Q

What level of detail does the checklist provide for implementation?

A

The checklist provides actionable, detailed guidance for each compliance area including specific policies required, control mechanisms, monitoring protocols, training requirements, and documentation standards. It includes implementation roadmaps with phased approaches, concrete examples, and practical illustrations. The document is designed for immediate use by compliance professionals without requiring extensive additional research, typically ranging from 15-25 pages depending on applicable compliance domains.