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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I'm closing cases and reviewing my junior attorneys' work. Part of being a public interest attorney is being in compliance with all of the requirements of our various grants. Part of my job is to ensure that all the attorneys I supervise are doing their paperwork in conformity with all that compliance. So, in short, I am doing the paperwork end of being an attorney today.
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An old friend was a senior marking communications person for a major brokerage firm. She created content for various firm offerings and firm members.
The biggest issue she had to deal with was Compliance, and what might be said and how to say it that would conform to the constantly changing nature of the applicable financial regulations. She spent a fair bit of time explaining to various, and in some cases very senior, people that what they wanted
wasn't in compliance, would bite the firm in the butt if done as desired, so no, she couldn't do it as desired, sorry.
She referred to the staffers charged with enforcing compliance as Nazguls. She also spent a fair bit of time mentoring junior employees, and talked about one who decided he wanted to
be a Nazgul. She was sympathetic. Compliance officer was an absolutely necessary job, and somebody had to do it, so she gave him the best advice she could about how to pursue that path within the firm.
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Dennis