Compliance Trends and Imperatives on Tap for 2025

by Hui CHEN

“In a world of openly conflicting values and priorities, simply exhorting people to "do the right thing" is not helpful.”

Every January, we’re asked to look into the proverbial crystal ball and predict what the world can expect in the year to come. Truth told, we live in a deeply unpredictable world. But our co-founder, Hui Chen, has nonetheless done her best to help us prepare for some of the trends and imperatives on tap for 2025. Read the article here at Law 360, or if you don’t have a subscription, click here for a PDF.

“2025 will be a year of conflicts, complexities and uncertainties. Diverging values, shifting policies and disruptive technologies will present unprecedented challenges. They also present opportunities: opportunities to learn new skills, to grow into our discomforts, to embrace complexities, and to discover common grounds with those whose values and opinions differ from ours.

This is the year to challenge old ways of doing things — repetitions of policies, procedures and trainings as a cure-all for misconduct; simplistic "just do the right thing" messaging; bureaucratic processes; programs driven by regulatory and enforcement activities.”