One of new areas of a best practices compliance program is to engage a company’s non-legal and non-compliance department employees in a role of “Compliance Champion”. Such a concept has several different functions: it allows a small compliance department to leverage resources and to expand the compliance footprint in the workforce and it (hopefully) fosters a workforce that is more committed to compliance through non-lawyer participation. One of the goals of such a Compliance Champion program is to train such employees to be your first line of compliance people on the ground, both to respond to routine queries and to alert the Legal/Compliance Department if a problem needs to be escalated.
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