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What keeps you up at night?
In today's legal and regulatory environment, the need to establish a strong enterprise-wide risk-management program is clear. However, what's less clear is what elements are required to accomplish this goal.
By Kirsten McMahon strong enterprise-wide risk-management (ERM) W ILLUSTRATION: JEREMY BRUNEEL
hat keeps in-house counsel up at night? Are they the same issues that may keep your CEO up at night? Should they be? Developing and establishing a
program is an important component to any business plan. Not surprisingly, corporate counsel are expect- ed and relied upon not only to participate in ERM programs but, often, to lead the charge. InHouse attended a conference hosted by the Asso- ciation of Corporate Counsel in Chicago and heard
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