Course Description

Comprehensive exploration of legal risk, encompassing compliance, contract, liability, and policy risk domains. Legal risk management principles based on international frameworks. Strategic implications of legal risk and how it informs organizational decision-making. Effective communication strategies for legal risk, including best practices for engaging with multiple stakeholders during both "peacetime" and crisis situations.

Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Individual paper related to group project.

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Athena Title

Legal Risk Mgmt Strategy Comm

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Prerequisite

LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H

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Semester Course Offered

Offered fall and spring

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Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

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Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to define legal risk, explain its relationship to overall business risk, and identify specific types of legal risk in various contexts.
• Students will be able to utilize international frameworks that integrate legal risk into overall enterprise risk management.
• Students will be able to recognize how companies leverage their understanding of legal risk in strategic decision making.
• Students will be able to develop appropriate legal risk communication to relevant stakeholders.

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Topical Outline

• Defining legal risk
• Legal Risk Management
• Legal Strategy
• Legal Risk Communication

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