We have worked with different stakeholders within businesses including CEs, COOs and General Counsel.

Some of the areas we can assist clients on:

  • Directors' personal liability risk reviews
  • Protecting the business - including legal strategies for protecting intellectual property, assuring proper transaction execution and managing complaints, disputes and litigation
  • Conduct risk reviews
  • Independent investigations into serious wrongdoing by employees under whistleblowing policies
  • Crisis management-legal & regulatory aspects
  • Responding to enquiries from Regulators
  • Internal marketing for GL&C professionals – developing the right approach and Dos and Don’ts
  • Project management requiring a legal skill set including regulatory change projects and new product development
  • Drafting documents, policies and procedures, including those that need to be understood by non lawyers
  • Working with other governance professionals in the organization with a particular focus on how to avoid duplication
  • Managing teams of professionals
  • Retaining key talent
  • Supporting the governance legal and compliance needs of the business as it grows - domestically and offshore
  • Integrating acquired teams of professionals
  • Training programs including induction for new starters
  • Managing teams of professionals through change
  • Coaching
  • Improving efficiency  of governance, legal and compliance services (see LawCurator)
  • Developing and embedding risk management plans
  • Client surveys and interviews
  • Reporting to senior management – governance structure, composition and what can go wrong

 

Some identified priorities

Some of the issues/initiatives we have evaluated include:

  • Insourcing v outsourcing professional services - getting the balance right
  • Unbundling legal services - particular focus on what tasks can be done by non-lawyers to reduce cost and improve turn around times
  • New fee arrangements with external advisers including NewLaw firms
  • Keeping front office and mid office staff up to date with legal changes without incurring costs
  • Systematizing standard transactions
  • Measuring the value add of GL&C professionals