Hui Chen’s position has been listed to fill on the Department of Justice Website, so it appears her contract at the compliance counsel will not be renewed. Chen’s tenure as the Compliance Counsel has helped to raise the profile of the chief compliance officer within corporations and the corporate compliance discipline more generally. Obviously, the Justice Department has long emphasized the role of both the CCO and compliance function, but after Chen became the compliance counsel, there were two significant changes in the discussion regarding those roles.
