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have somebody standing at the door [to protect the room] with a bunch of papers inside. FISH: We use our knowledge-man- agement platform for everything from communication to training to reporting to document management and so on. And where you have a large number of individual professionals spread in half a dozen or a dozen different offices in different locations in different time zones, it's an efficient way to get things done and to manage costs and to make sure that generally what one part of the organization is doing, another part is aware of at the right time. We have built up our knowledge-management Subscription Special Summer Get 2 years (22 issues) of information-packed G SAVE 25% issues for only $78.75 By subscribing to 2 years of Canadian Lawyer before August 31, you'll save $26.25 off the cover price! Along with 22 issues packed with insights, trends and analysis, you'll also receive access to Canadian Lawyer's exclusive digital editions and Canadian Legal Newswire, a weekly e-newsletter edited by the same experienced team that creates Canadian Lawyer. This offer expires August 31, 2010 Subscribe online using promo code: CL-Summer Special Promo www.canadianlawyermag.com 22 • AUGUST 2010 ub-ad_IH_July_10.indd 1 INHOUSE 7/6/10 4:02:30 PM capability in the last couple of years and it is all based on essentially technol- ogy. So we see this as hugely important and of course we have a very strong and important relationship with our IT providers. INHOUSE: What does risk man- agement mean to you, and where is the main focus for your company? What role can outside counsel play? AGOSTINO: It might be profitable to have someone who is not in the legal department to be the risk manager of the company. In our company, we do have someone who is our internal auditor and also the risk manager. . . . [H]e's actually done an excellent job on this subject and meets with senior management at least twice a year and creates risk profiles which are reviewed with our audit finance committee or the board. He's created such a great program that Harvard [University] is so interested, they've come up to look at our project and they're using our model to teach how to deal with risk management. So I think it's part of legal in a sense because we understand a lot of legal risks but there are business risks that also have legal components and it could be worthwhile to have, within an organization, someone who's really focused on those kinds of things and bring them to senior management. There's more online Visit canadianlawyermag.com/ inhouse for an extended version of this article and videos of the roundtable. Pick of the crop: top 10 boutiques in IP & litigation • Free money, bad politics March 2010 $7.00 $7.00 Top 10 Quebec regional firms • The muddy waters of AC TA • Counsels of perfection July 2010 $7.00 high-profile example of how greed can override good sense and the law (not to mention prrofesofessional conduct rules) but a number of la highhigh--pgh pro ile go good corrpo CL_Mar_10.indd 1 StanStank Ganko Grmovsek and Gil Cornblum's insider-trinsider-t ading scheme was a rare but xa in ood sens p o ssiona It's been up and running for four years, but the jury is still out on how independent Canada's new Public Prosecution Service really is and if it has the resources to put into motion Stephen Harper's tough-on-crime laws. PUBLIC LAW co po ateorra me som some by d Brian Saunders, director of public prosecutions, along with his two deputy directors Chantal Proulx and George Dolhai. corporate lawyers have landed in hot water, some by design, others simply by folly. 6/22/10 11:06:50 AM