In a room filled with nearly 450 risk, legal, and compliance professionals, Kenneth Polite Jr. seemed right at home.
The assistant attorney general and head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division received handshakes and hellos from more than a dozen friends and former colleagues both before and after delivering his keynote at Day 2 of Compliance Week’s National Conference on Tuesday. Many of those connections were no doubt forged during his time as a Morgan Lewis partner before joining the Justice Department in 2021, but Polite also holds the notable distinction of being a former chief compliance officer himself.
