Jeffrey M. Kaplan is an Adjunct Professor of Business Ethics at Stern and a partner at Kaplan & Walker LLP.  He is a former member of the Stier, Anderson & Malone, LLC, a law firm in Skillman, New Jersey and Washington, D.C which specializes in conducting independent investigations, assisting in compliance program development and implementation and assessing and monitoring compliance on behalf of boards of directors and governmental bodies.  For more than a decade, Professor Kaplan has assisted companies in developing, implementing and reviewing compliance programs, including conducting risk analyses; writing/editing codes of conduct and other policy documents; counseling companies in matters regarding training; developing compliance audit protocols and reporting systems; establishing compliance/ethics offices; and counseling boards of directors regarding their fiduciary duties under the Caremark case.  This practice has included work for clients in the securities, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, government contracting, retail, publishing, professional services, pharmaceuticals, private investments, food and chemical fields.

Professor Kaplan received his B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Carleton College in 1976 and his J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard University in 1980. He is a former partner of Chadbourne & Parke, where he served in the Special Litigation Group, and also a former partner of Arkin Kaplan & Cohen LLP. Professor Kaplan is also the Compliance and Ethics Training Advisor to Midi Inc., a developer of Web-based and CD-ROM compliance training programs in Princeton, New Jersey. He is likewise Counsel to the Ethics Officer Association, a professional association of more than 800 ethics and compliance officers.

From 1997-2001, he was Program Director of the Conference Board's Business Ethics Conference. As a consultant to the Conference Board, he is also co-directing a major study, Ethics Programs: The Role of the Board, and has lead a Compliance Risk Analysis Workshop for in-house counsel. Professor Kaplan is co-editor of Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines: Preventing Criminal and Civil Liability (West 1993); co-author of The Prevention and Prosecution of Computer and High Technology Crime (Matthew Bender 1989); and co-publisher of Ethikos, a bimonthly magazine for ethics and compliance professionals.

He is also author and co-author of numerous articles about business crime and compliance programs in periodicals such as The California Management Review, Directorship, Directors' Monthly, The Journal of Securities and Commodities Regulation, The Prevention of Corporate Liability: Current Report, Directors Monthly, The Preventive Law Reporter, The American Banker, Business Crime Commentary, Business and Society Review, and the National Law Journal. He is a frequent speaker on ethics and compliance issues for the Practicing Law Institute and other business groups. He is included in the Corporate Governance listings of Who's Who - Legal.