The Role of General Counsel in Managing Organisational Legal Risk - Register your interest

A compliance intensive for General Counsel.

Dates are scheduled on a needs basis. To register your interest please email client.training@claytonutz.com or follow the registration prompt above.

Overview

After some turbulent years on the cost control front, General Counsel in Australia and New Zealand are finding new challenges of the regulatory kind, as governments refocus on the business of compliance. (Australian Legal Business Issue 9.02)

Boards are also seeking a more structured assurance framework and ongoing reporting and feedback on organisational legal risk management.

This intensive one day workshop will explore the evolving role of General Counsel and how the adoption of structured Legal Risk Management Plans can assist General Counsel in dealing with increased legal and regulatory risk and at the same time seek to provide an ongoing due diligence defence for the organisation, the board and senior management.

Agenda

• The evolving role of general Counsel
• Setting and maintenance of legal risk tolerance
• Role definitions
• Legal Risk Management Plans
• What are they?
• Benefits
• Linkage to risk management and compliance plans
• Linkage to general counsel
• Linkage to regulatory liaison and stakeholder management
• Key take home messages.

Learning outcomes

Participants will walk away with:

• A clear understanding of the evolving role of General Counsel and practically what needs to be done to establish or update an organisation's legal risk management plan
• Sample templates of relevant documents and some approaches for General Counsel to consider
• A tool kit of "tricks and traps" for those who are undertaking this task for the first time (implementation or upgrading)

Who should attend?

This program has been specifically designed for general counsel.

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