Risk & Compliance

Articles

Reputations at risk: Navigate client guidelines on conflicts of interest

Clients' conflicts requirements are becoming increasingly challenging, warns Frank Maher. He provides some tips on navigating their outside counsel guidelines

Two out of three legal professionals find it hard to 'do the right thing'

New research recommends a review of ethics education within the legal profession

Are multinational companies sleepwalking into compliance disasters?

By Control Risks

Member departures: Tackling repudiatory breaches and competing businesses

Is there an amicable way for LLPs and their members to part ways? Paul Nicholls QC, Tim Spillane and Peter Nicholson consider members' rights and duties

Articulate your risk appetite to drive business growth

By Louise Fleming, Executive Director, Kingsmead Square

Fraud fingerprints: The warning signs of fraud and money laundering

Kevin Shergold explores the trends and warning signs of fraud and money laundering in law firms and client organisations

Data mine: Big data and the erosion of privacy

Big data analytics will help law firms to innovate in client services but will also lead to greater erosion of the right to privacy, warns Eric Hunter

Take the pain out of complaints

Barbara Spoor provides a guide to a time-saving, cost-effective complaints management procedure