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Area of law

Corporate Compliance

Building the systems that keep an organization within the law.

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What this area covers

Compliance work is preventive. Lawyers and compliance professionals identify the rules that apply to an organization, write policies, train staff, monitor conduct and investigate when something goes wrong.

Also called: Compliance, Compliance and Ethics, Regulatory Compliance.

Typical legal work

  • Designing compliance programs and policies
  • Conducting internal investigations
  • Reporting to boards and regulators

Where lawyers work

  • In-house legal departments
  • Law firms of every size
  • Compliance and ethics departments

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Corporate Compliance. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

12 schools · 2 concentrations and specializations · 7 certificates · 1 clinic · 3 centers and institutes · 1 externship

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Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Business Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.
  2. 2.American Bar Association. Criminal Justice Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.