Well, the Compliance Week 2011 annual conference is now fading into memory. The event was outstanding, a gathering of nearly 500 people who spanned the whole range of the corporate compliance community today, from in-house counsels and internal auditors to outside advisers and government regulators. Our agenda covered dozens of topics, and you can see coverage of many of them in our newsletter and our upcoming July print magazine.
Usually in my column immediately after the conference I recap a few observations or lessons learned that surprised me. This year I can boil that lesson down to one telling insight, that sprang to mind thanks to two particular moments that happened during the conference: the superb keynote address given by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on Tuesday morning, and an outburst later that day from our first-ever Compliance Week protester.
