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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154599603321

Autore

Whalley Matthew

Titolo

The Legal Risk Management Handbook : An International Guide to Protect Your Business from Legal Loss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Kogan Page, Limited, , 2016

©2017

ISBN

0-7494-7798-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GuzelianChris

Disciplina

340.0681

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Preface -- Part ONE  A general guide  to legal risk management  and reporting -- 01 The business  case for legal risk: How to articulate legal risk to  your business -- Introduction -- How legal risk results in financial and reputational loss -- Why you should treat legal risk as part of operational risk -- Three reasons legal risk management is  still a niche discipline -- How legal risk has been defined  since 2000 -- Our legal risk definition and short-form legal risk taxonomy -- Summary -- 02 Big picture  legal risk management: Corporate governance, values and policy -- Introduction -- Emerging best practice in corporate governance -- Corporate governance in the boardroom -- Summary -- 03 Evidence you're  in control: How to identify, quantify and  report legal risk -- Introduction -- Risk management models -- Our proactive legal risk management framework -- Summary -- Part TWO  An in-depth review of legal risk and how to mitigate it -- 04 Legislative/regulatory risk  and the role  of legal and compliance -- Introduction -- The increasing burden of legal and regulatory compliance -- How to take a consistent approach to legislative/regulatory assessment -- How to get maximum value from your legal and compliance functions -- The three core objectives of the modern legal department -- How to manage the core assets of your legal and compliance departments -- Summary -- 05 Non-contractual obligations: Ethics, conduct and duty of care -- Introduction -- There



are four areas of focus for duty  of care -- Regulators prioritize duty of care risks in their enforcement decisions -- The ethical lens we use to judge moral behaviour has changed -- Summary -- Case list -- 06 Contract risk -- Introduction -- Why contracts matter -- How to identify and manage contractual risk.

How to measure contract risk in terms of variance from standard terms -- Contracts as a key risk management tool -- The contract lifecycle -- How to improve contracting practice in  your organization -- Options to resource contract management -- Summary -- 07 Dispute risk -- Introduction -- When to start managing dispute risk -- Three key sources of dispute risk:  privilege, process and strategy -- Best practice in dispute management -- How to offset the cost of litigation and transfer risk -- How to analyse and manage enforcement risk -- Summary -- 08 Non-contractual rights risk: Intellectual property: the gateway  to your customer -- Introduction -- Digitization, decentralization and disruption -- Responses: law and regulation return at scale -- Two dimensions of brands: trust marks  and badges -- Conclusion - IP as the gateway to  your customer -- References and further reading -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Get the definitive guide to identifying and managing legal risk for legal, risk and compliance professionals and governance teams.