These are some compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention.
Part 2: How Law Schools Can Champion Compliance Careers
Law schools find themselves at a critical juncture. Many students no longer want the traditional path from law school to BigLaw, and instead, seek careers that blend legal expertise with business acumen, preventive risk management, and organizational leadership. Compliance and ethics roles offer exactly this combination. Additionally, compliance work increasingly involves substantial international practice opportunities, as multinational corporations need professionals who can navigate cross-border regulatory frameworks, coordinate global investigations, and implement ethics programs across diverse jurisdictions. Yet, many law schools have been slow to recognize and support this career path. The following recommendations can help law schools better serve students interested in compliance and ethics, strengthening their overall career services offerings.
The SEC’s New Enforcement Strategy is Shockingly Simple: Don’t Enforce.
Per two recent reports, the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission isn’t just pulling back — it’s vanishing — quietly adopting a new ethos of absence, silence and regulatory invisibility.
When Chaos Capitalism Meets Compliance
By Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance
Don’t look now, but corporations and compliance teams already have yet another Trumpian trend tripping up your plans for 2026: chaos capitalism, as President Trump barks out new demands for mandatory overseas investment, price caps, price cuts, executive compensation, shareholder compensation, and lord only knows what’s next.
Seriously, who can even keep up with all this? Four days ago my plan for today’s post was to explore the implications of the United States toppling the government of Venezuela to take over its oil industry. We still need to consider those implications, because they’re huge — but Venezuela is already old news, washed away by a torrent of even more Trump tweets. Since Thursday alone, the president has…