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