Overview
Enron and other local and international corporate scandals, financial collapse and attacks on corporate reputation could have been averted with proactive and best practice legal risk management. Calamitous legal and reputational penalties to companies, directors, and officers, as well as external advisers would never have eventuated. Legal risk is now an integral part of the boardroom agenda, regardless of the size of the organisation. This provides a new challenge for in-house lawyers, who can play a crucial role in ensuring that a risk-aware culture prevails across the organisation. Any successful risk management programme must start within the management and its operations.
This newly introduced seminar will give participants the guidance and information necessary to design, install and begin to run a compliance and legal risk management system, or to review the existing system and put in place further preventive measures to minimise the organisation’s exposure to compliance and legal risk. It will also show participants how to protect in-house clients and interact with regulators, supervisors and stakeholders.
Learning Objectives and Benefits
On this programme, participants will learn how to:
- Design, install and implement a compliance management framework for their organisation
- Improve the organisation’s legal compliance
- Deal with the risk of corporate criminal liability in the organisation
- Install an effective system of legal audit
- Reduce legal costs and risk of damages
- Assist the Board to institute formal structures to review and manage legal risk
- Distinguish between governance, compliance, risk management and ethics
- Ensure that a risk-aware culture prevails in the organisation.
Who should attend
The programme with benefit the following groups:
- In-house counsel
- Heads of legal departments
- Compliance officers and managers
- Risk officers and managers
- Senior corporate counsel and advisers
- Compliance officers
- Company secretaries
Structure and Curriculum
- Legal risk management and practice
- Compliance and legal risk framework
- Corporate criminal liability
- Governance, compliance, risk management and ethics
Admission process
1. Click on the Apply Now tab
2. Select the number of participants to enroll on the programme
3. Fill in your details to complete your application
4. Request for an invoice or make an instant payment via our secured payment gateway
5. Upon confirmation of payment, a programme manager will get in touch with you at least three days before the programme commences.
Faculty
Prof Olawale Ajai
Dr Franklin Ngwu
