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Course Overview Legal risk is now an integral part of the boardroom agenda, regardless of the size of the organisation. Recent corporate scandal, financial collapse and attacks on corporate reputation have placed it firmly under the spotlight. This provides a new challenge for in-house lawyers, who can play a crucial role in ensuring a risk-aware culture prevails across the organisation. Any successful risk management programme must start within the management and its operations. This new one-day conference will give you the guidance and information you need in order to put in place preventative measures which will minimise your company's exposure to risk. The expert and comprehensive panel of speakers will cover a range of issues, from business interruption to legal privilege and how you can protect your in-house clients. Audience - In-house counsel
- Heads of legal departments
- Legal affairs directors and managers
- Senior corporate counsel and advisers
- Compliance officers
- Company secretaries
Course Outline Business interruption - Contractual liability
- Terrorist financing
- Force majeure
- Sanctions
- Insurance
- Disaster recovery plans
Corporate criminal liability - Use of criminal sanctions against business organisations
- Greater individual accountability
- Criminal liability of officers and directors
- Corporate manslaughter legislation
- Tesco v Nattrass and other important cases
Environmental and health and safety risks - What are the EHS risks?
- Reputational risk
- Financial implications
- The future trends in EHS risk
- Increased regulation
- Economic instruments
- Personal liability
- How do you manage the risk?
- What are the benefits of good EHS risk management?
Employee Liability - Risks to be aware of:
- Individual and collective labour law rights
- Health and safety duties
- Immigration law obligations
- Impact of CSR/reputational risk through employment practices
- In own business
- In supply chain at home and abroad
Legal privilege - Current status
- AM&S
- Developments in re Orkem and John Deere
- Interface with human rights (the Funke case)
- Re Akzo Nobel
- Practical consequences of providing unprivileged advice
- How you can protect your in-house client
Corporate governance - Legal risk as a sub-set of overall risk management
- What the Combined Code and Listing Rules say
- Turnbull/Flint
- CoSo
- SOX
- How an effective board puts in place the formal structures to review and manage risk
Compliance and regulatory risk - Analysing and identifying legal and regulatory risk
- Designing controls and procedures
- Implementing an effective monitoring programme
- Functional roles and responsibilities
- Creating an effective compliance culture
Establishing a risk management culture - Distinction between governance, compliance, risk management and ethics
- How can awareness of risk management issues add value to the legal function?
- What strategies can you adopt to improve the risk management culture of your organisation?
- Reinforcing business processes
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