The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What skills does a CCO need to navigate the compliance waters in any company successfully? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced, and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this podcast series. In this episode, Scott Garland details his move to Main Justice and the US Attorney's Office for See more +

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What skills does a CCO need to navigate the compliance waters in any company successfully? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced, and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this podcast series. In this episode, Scott Garland details his move to Main Justice and the US Attorney's Office for Massachusetts.

With a knack for understanding technology, relating it to legal issues, and translating it for lawyers, judges, and juries, Garland went to the DOJ, working at Main Justice in Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section in DC. His work there included criminal investigations and trials, policy analysis, and drafting manuals. From that position, he moved to Boston to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. He began in the Cybercrime Unit, then National Security Unit, eventually becoming NSU's Deputy Chief, then Acting Chief of the Unit. Along the way, he picked up a variety of advisory responsibilities: identity theft coordinator, committee on dealing with cooperating witnesses, and grand jury supervisor. See less -