Lesson 3: Contracts -- Making Offers
The discussion in this lesson describes some of the
considerations in framing a contractual offer. In addition to identifying some of the key
preventive law considerations in connection with contract formation, this discussion
illustrates the types of issue analysis and transactional planning that underlie many
types of preventive law practice.
Lesson 4: Torts -- Preventing Professional
Malpractice and Products Liability
Preventive law methods can help to prevent tort liability by minimizing harmful
misconduct. This lesson describes preventive practices for reducing two important
types of tort liability: professional malpractice and products liability. It also
addresses some of the new legal risks that can be raised by poorly implemented preventive
programs.Lesson 5: Commercial
Liability -- Identifying Risks With Legal Audits
A legal audit is a form of performance audit aimed at assessing an
organization's success and effectiveness in law compliance. The following materials
describe the features of effective performance audits of organizational law compliance.
This lesson describes principles and methods that can be used for developing,
implementing, and evaluating legal audits aimed at any type of law compliance.
Lesson 6: Environmental Law -- ISO 14000
Compliance
This lesson describes the International Standards Organization's
(ISO's) standards for environmental management systems and the implications of these
standards for organizational law compliance and liability reduction. These
standards, known collectively as ISO 14000, are based on the view that companies and other
organizations can best conduct their environmental affairs if they systematically identify
and manage potential environmental performance problems. Among the steps needed to ensure
proper attention to environmental performance, companies adhering to the new standards
must adopt law compliance auditing and management review systems.
Lesson 7: Intellectual Property --
Preserving Assets With Intellectual Property Audits
This lesson examines Intellectual property audits, which are systematic
studies by a lawyer of a client's intellectual property interests, needs, and handling
procedures. These audits can strengthen both a client's present intellectual
property interests and the institutions and processes that will help the client protect
such interests in the future.
Lesson 8: Corporate Liability -- Corporate
Compliance Programs
Law compliance programs are systematic measures taken by
firms to detect and prevent corporate offenses. They encompass a variety of steps to
identify, facilitate, encourage, and monitor lawful conduct by corporate employees. Such
programs can further corporate interests in many ways, including reducing the frequency of
illegal conduct, influencing prosecutorial discretion to withhold corporate charges for
employee offenses, minimizing corporate penalties for completed offenses, satisfying
demands by board members and others for information on corporate law compliance, and
implementing ethical standards in business operations. This lesson discusses the
legal implications of corporate compliance programs and the means to implement effective
programs for corporate law compliance. |
