With businesses from banks to drug makers paying record fines, and government agencies ramping up enforcement in areas ranging from foreign bribery to proprietary trading, the field of compliance is sizzling. For corporations, law firms and law enforcers, it’s where the money is (or is lost)—and where many of the jobs are. The field has gone from peripheral at many institutions to front and center, providing vital oversight at the intersection of risk and reward.

WilmerHale Partner Boyd Johnson is a featured speaker in the panel, "Suddenly Sexy: How Compliance Went from Ho-hum to Hot," which will discuss the challenges and opportunities in this suddenly sexy practice area.