Law Society Skillnet is holding an interactive seminar that is to frame solicitors’ understanding of the relationship between the legal environment and the business (or other) environment in which clients make decisions. 

To be held on Tuesday 28 May, at Blackhall Place, the seminar will promote a framework for lawyers to evaluate risk and advise clients by employing legal knowledge, skills, and judgment within the context of the client’s objectives.

To book this CPD course visit Risk and Resilience in the Legal Professional

This is an in-person event and will not be available online or as a recording. The seminar will run from 10am to 3pm and the cost is €195 with a €160 discounted Law Society Skillnet fee.

Attendance will yield 4.5 CPD hours by group study – two on professional development and solicitor wellbeing and 2.5 on client care and professional standards.

The presenter is Walter W Bardenwerper, a former director of a professional-liability insurance carrier and a risk-management specialist.

Think and talk about risk

Topics include:

• How to think – and talk – about risk,
• Vocabulary used in quantitative professions, such as finance, economics, and engineering, that evaluate risk in mathematical terms, unlike lawyers, who are more likely to employ relativistic terms such as 'material', 'unwarranted', or 'unsustainable',
• Helping lawyers become familiar with some of the vocabulary and thought processes commonly used in the more quantitative professions,
• Lawyers as risk managers, and the key lawyer role to counsel management on the risks arising from non-compliance,
• Why risk must be managed in all of the contexts in which lawyers work,
• The varying risk situations encountered by lawyers in private practice and by in-house legal counsel,
• Approaching risk systematically, and
• Insurance: What insurance can and can’t do to mitigate risks.