At a recent Compliance Week event, a chief compliance officer observed that in her public company, the compliance department and the legal department disagree on the importance of implementing a strong insider-trading compliance program. The compliance department has struggled in its efforts to get a strong program in place because the company's legal department is not very supportive, she said. Meanwhile, the legal department isn't interested in devoting much time or money into such a program and seems content to let employees who are foolish enough to engage in insider trading hang by their own rope. The legal department's focus, ...