Strategic Decision-Making for In-House Counsel

How to make sound, defensible recommendations when the law is unclear, the risks compete, the facts are incomplete – and the stakes are escalating.

Chris Hilberg
Course Chair
General Counsel, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer & Corporate Secretary
SkyWater Technology

This course explores the judgment calls that challenge even seasoned in-house counsel – and how, in those scenarios, to move beyond identifying risk to make a clear, practical, defensible recommendation when the answer is not obvious.

You’ll learn:

• What belongs on the in-house risk list now
• Key principles for navigating difficult in-house decision-making
• How to apply those principles to real-world scenarios when reasonable counsel may recommend different approaches
• PLUS – Includes special credit sessions on ethics and elimination of bias in in-house fact-gathering and decision-making
• 3 Non-Intuitive Professional Responsibility Risks for In-House Counsel Using Generative AI
  1.0 ethics credit to be applied for
• Potential for Unintended Bias in In-House Counsel Decision-Making and Fact-Gathering
  1.0 elimination-of-bias credit to be applied for